Abstract

We prove that the specific heat of a two component random harmonic chain in the limit of infinite greatest mass has an essential singularity at zero temperature, which implies that the average density of states has an essential singularity at zero energy of type consistent with the one proposed by Lifschitz. The phenomenon is shown to have essentially the same origin as the Griffiths' singularities of random Ising systems.

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