Second phase transition line

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Abstract: We study the phase transion line of the almost Mathieu operator, that separates arithmetic regions corresponding to singular continuous and a.e. pure point regimes, and prove that both purely singular continuous and a.e. pure point spectrum occur for dense sets of frequencies.


The almost Mathieu family is defined by \[ (H_{\lambda, \alpha, \theta}u)_n=u_{n+1}+u_{n-1}+2\lambda\cos 2\pi(n\alpha+\theta)u_n, \] where $\theta\in \mathbb R$, $\alpha\in \mathbb R\setminus \mathbb Q$ and $\lambda \in \mathbb R_+$. In the case $\lambda>1$, the main results of the paper are: \begin{itemize} \item[-] There exists a dense set of $\alpha$ such that $H_{\lambda, \alpha, \theta}$ has purely singular continuous spectrum for all $\theta$; \item[-] There exists a dense set of $\alpha$ such that $H_{\lambda, \alpha, \theta}$ has pure point spectrum for a.e. $\theta$.\end{itemize}



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