On the absolutely continuous spectrum of Stark Hamiltonians (Q2731813)

The author studies spectral properties of the Schrödinger operator with a constant electric field perturbed by a bounded potential. It is shown that if the derivative of the potential in the direction of the electric field is small enough at infinity, then the spectrum of the corresponding Stark operator is purely absolutely continuous. In the one-dimensional case the boundedness of the derivative of the potential is sufficient. However, for higher dimensions the author constructs smooth potentials with bounded partial derivatives, for which the corresponding Stark operators have dense point spectra.