A family of almost periodic Schrödinger operators (Q1079797)

\textit{J. Bellissard} and the second and third named authors introduced a one-dimensional, almost-periodic, discrete Schrödinger operator which is defined by a parameter \(\lambda\) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 701-704 (1982)]. We allow this parameter to become complex and develop a geometric formalism to control the operator. The support of the spectrum of this operator is the Julia set of the mapping \(x\to x^ 2-\lambda\). We prove that the almost-periodicity holds over wide regions of the complex \(\lambda\)-plane, even though Hermiticity fails.