Spectral aspects of the skew-shift operator: a numerical perspective

DOI10.4208/CICP.120513.290813AMaRDI QIDQ5372217zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Bourgain-Chang

Publication date 27 October 2017

Published in Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0560

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Difference operators (39A70) Linear difference operators (47B39) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: In this paper we perform a numerical study of the spectra, eigenstates, and Lyapunov exponents of the skew-shift counterpart to Harper's equation. This study is motivated by various conjectures on the spectral theory of these 'pseudo-random' models, which are reviewed in detail in the initial sections of the paper. The numerics carried out at different scales are within agreement with the conjectures and show a striking difference compared with the spectral features of the Almost Mathieu model. In particular our numerics establish a small upper bound on the gaps in the spectrum (conjectured to be absent).

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