KMS states and the chemical potential for disordered systems

We extend the theory of the chemical potential associated to a compact separable gauge group, to the case of disordered quantum systems. This is done in the framework of operator algebras. Among the other results, we show that the chemical potential does not depend on the disorder. The situation of the n-torus is treated in some detail. Indeed, the chemical potential is intrinsically defined in terms of the direct integral decomposition of the Connes-Radon-Nikodym cocycle associated to the (normal extension of the) KMS state omega and its trasforms omega circle rho by the (localized) automorphisms rho of the observable algebra, carrying the Abelian charges of the model under consideration. This description parallels the analogous one relative to the usual (i.e. non disordered) quantum models.