Hyperbolicity of the trace map for a strongly coupled quasiperiodic Schrödinger operator

DOI10.1007/S00605-010-0270-4MaRDI QIDQ540459zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emiliano De Simone, Laurent Marin

Publication date 3 June 2011

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3082

zbMATH Keywords

box counting dimensionHausdorff dimensionSchrödinger operatorSmale horseshoesymbolic dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Linear operators on special spaces (weighted shifts, operators on sequence spaces, etc.) (47B37) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We consider the trace map associated with the silver ratio Schrodinger operator as a diffeomorphism on the invariant surface associated with a given coupling constant and prove that the non-wandering set of this map is hyperbolic if the coupling is sufficiently large. As a consequence, for this values of the coupling constant, the local and global Hausdorff dimension and the local and global box counting dimension of the spectrum of this operator all coincide and are smooth functions of the coupling constant.

Review text

The paper considers the discrete Schrödinger operator associated to a Sturmian quasiperiodic potential \[ (H\psi)(n)=\psi(n-1)-\psi(n+1)+v(n,\theta)\psi(n). \] The quasiperiodicity of \(v(n)\) is generated by an irrational number \(\theta\) according to the formula \[ v(n,\theta)=V([(n+1)\theta]-[n\theta]), \] where \(V\in\mathbb R^+\) is the coupling constant and \([x]\) denotes the largest integer smaller than \(x\). The attention is focused on the potential associated to the irrational number \(\omega\), the so-called silver ratio \[ \omega=\frac{1}{2+\frac{1}{2+\frac{1}{2+\cdots}}}=[0,2,2,\dots,2,\dots]. \] It is shown that under this restriction one can study the spectrum of \(H\) by means of an auxiliary dynamical system, described by the so-called trace map \[ T(x,y,z):=(x(y^2-1)-zy,xy-z,y). \] The spectrum of \(H\) can be determined by studing the non-wandering set of \(T\) on a certain invariant surface \(S_V\). It is shown that the non-wandering set of \(T\) is hyperbolic provided the coupling \(V\) is sufficiently large. As a consequence, for these values of the coupling constant, the local and global Hausdorff dimension and global box counting dimension of the spectum of \(H\) coincide and are smooth functions of the coupling constant.

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