The Anderson model in one dimension is a quantum particle on a discrete chain of sites with nearest-neighbor hopping and random on-site potentials. It is a progenitor of many further models of disordered systems, and it has spurred numerous developments in various branches of physics. The literature does not readily provide, however, practical analytic tools for computing the density of states of this model when the distribution of the on-site potentials is arbitrary. Here, supersymmetry-based techniques are employed to give an explicit linear integral equation whose solutions control the density of states. The output of this analytic procedure is in perfect agreement with numerical sampling. By the Thouless formula, these results immediately provide analytic control over the localization length.

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• Anderson localization
• Density of states
• Supersymmetry
• Integral equations
• Random matrix theory