Tridiagonal substitution Hamiltonians

DOI10.1051/MMNP/20149514MaRDI QIDQ2933106zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors May Mei, William N. Yessen

Publication date 10 December 2014

Published in Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2259, https://www.mmnp-journal.org/10.1051/mmnp/20149514/pdf

zbMATH Keywords

substitution Hamiltoniantrace map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobi (tridiagonal) operators (matrices) and generalizations (47B36) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We consider a family of discrete Jacobi operators on the one-dimensional integer lattice with Laplacian and potential terms modulated by a primitive invertible two-letter substitution. We investigate the spectrum and the spectral type, the fractal structure and fractal dimensions of the spectrum, exact dimensionality of the integrated density of states, and the gap structure. We present a review of previous results, some applications, and open problems. Our investigation is based largely on the dynamics of trace maps. This work is an extension of similar results on Schroedinger operators, although some of the results that we obtain differ qualitatively and quantitatively from those for the Schoedinger operators. The nontrivialities of this extension lie in the dynamics of the associated trace map as one attempts to extend the trace map formalism from the Schroedinger cocycle to the Jacobi one. In fact, the Jacobi operators considered here are, in a sense, a test item, as many other models can be attacked via the same techniques, and we present an extensive discussion on this.

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