Resonance tongues and spectral gaps in quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators with one or more frequencies. A numerical exploration
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Resonance tongues and spectral gaps in quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators with one or more frequencies. A numerical exploration
zbMATH Open document ID: 1237.37023
author: Joaquim Puig
author: Carles Simó
published in: Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations
publication date: 2011-11-25T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/8946
review text: The authors present a numerical exploration on the spectrum of some representative examples of discrete one-dimensional Schrödinger operators with quasi-periodic potential in terms of a perturbative constant \(b\) and the spectral parameter \(a\). Their examples include the well-known almost Mathieu model, other trigonometric potentials with a single quasi-periodic frequency and generalizations with two and three frequencies. The rotation number and the Lyapunov exponent are computed numerically to detect open and collapsed gaps, resonance tongues and the measure of the spectrum. Here, it is observed that the case with one frequency is significantly different from the case of several frequencies because the latter has all gaps collapsed for a sufficiently large value of the perturbative constant and thus the spectrum is a single spectral band with positive Lyapunov exponent. In contrast, in the cases with one frequency considered, gaps are always dense in the spectrum, although some gaps may collapse either for a single value of the perturbative constant or for a range of values. In all cases there is a curve in the \((a,b)\)-plane separating the regions where the Lyapunov exponent is zero in the spectrum and where it is positive. Along this curve, which is \(b=2\) in the almost Mathieu case, the measure of the spectrum is zero.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37B55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35J10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37M25
zbMATH DE Number: 5980365
zbMATH Keywords: quasi-periodic Schrödinger operator
zbMATH Keywords: spectral gaps
zbMATH Keywords: resonance tongues
zbMATH Keywords: rotation number
zbMATH Keywords: Lyapunov exponent
zbMATH Keywords: numerical exploration
reviewed by: Christian Pötzsche
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2026752011
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DOI: 10.1007/S10884-010-9199-5
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5980365