On transport properties of isotropic quasiperiodic \(XY\) spin chains (Q2630746)

The author studies the \(XY\) spin chain with quasiperiodic multi-frequency effective Hamiltonian \((H(x)\psi)_n = \psi_n+1 + \psi_{n-1}+v(x+n\alpha)\psi_n\) where \(\alpha\) is an irrational frequency vector and \(v\) is a continuous function on a \(d\)-dimensional torus. Under the assumption of \(L^2\) degree \(0\) reducibility of the corresponding Schrödinger cocycle, the author proves that there exists a non-trivial bound of the Lieb-Robinson velocity. Further, he obtains an explicit description of the lower bound in terms of the group velocity for the effective Hamiltonian.