The Fibonacci Hamiltonian

DOI10.1007/S00222-016-0660-XMaRDI QIDQ2520608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Damanik, Anton Gorodetski, William N. Yessen

Publication date 16 December 2016

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7823

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: We consider the Fibonacci Hamiltonian, the central model in the study of electronic properties of one-dimensional quasicrystals, and provide a detailed description of its spectrum and spectral characteristics (namely, the optimal H"older exponent of the integrated density of states, the dimension of the density of states measure, the dimension of the spectrum, and the upper transport exponent) for all values of the coupling constant (in contrast to all previous quantitative results, which could be established only in the regime of small or large coupling). In particular, we show that the spectrum of this operator is a dynamically defined Cantor set and that the density of states measure is exact-dimensional; this implies that all standard fractal dimensions coincide in each case. We show that all the gaps of the spectrum allowed by the gap labeling theorem are open for all values of the coupling constant. Also, we establish strict inequalities between the four spectral characteristics in question, and provide the exact large coupling asymptotics of the dimension of the density of states measure (for the other three quantities, the large coupling asymptotics were known before). A crucial ingredient of the paper is the relation between spectral properties of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian and dynamical properties of the Fibonacci trace map (such as dimensional characteristics of the non-wandering hyperbolic set and its measure of maximal entropy as well as other equilibrium measures, topological entropy, multipliers of periodic orbits). We establish exact identities relating the spectral and dynamical quantities, and show the connection between the spectral quantities and the thermodynamic pressure function.

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In this paper, the authors study the Fibonacci Hamiltonian. According to the authors the spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian is a dynamically defined Cantor set and that the density of states measure is exact dimensional; this implies that all standard fractal dimensions coincide in each case. The authors show that all the gaps of the spectrum allowed by the gap labeling theorem are open for all values of the coupling constant. Also, the authors consider the optimal Hölder exponent of the integrated density of states, the dimension of the density of states measure, the dimension of the spectrum, and the upper transport exponent, establish strict inequalities between them, and provide the exact large coupling asymptotics of the dimension of the density of states measure. The authors also provide the explicit relations between these spectral characteristics and the dynamical properties of the Fibonacci trace map. They establish exact identities relating the spectral and dynamical quantities, and show the connection between the spectral quantities and the thermodynamic pressure function. In the rest, the authors provide the exact statement of the results.

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