Singular continuous Cantor spectrum for magnetic quantum walks

DOI10.1007/S11005-020-01257-1MaRDI QIDQ2190777zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jake Fillman, T. Geib, C. Cedzich, Albert H. Werner

Publication date 22 June 2020

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09924

zbMATH Keywords

Cantor spectrumdiscrete electromagnetismquantum walkssingular continuous spectrumspectral theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Abstract: In this note, we consider a physical system given by a two-dimensional quantum walk in an external magnetic field. In this setup, we show that both the topological structure as well as its type depend sensitively on the value of the magnetic flux $Phi$: while for $Phi/(2pi)$ rational the spectrum is known to consist of bands, we show that for $Phi/(2pi)$ irrational the spectrum is a zero-measure Cantor set and the spectral measures have no pure point part.

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