Universal hierarchical structure of quasiperiodic eigenfunctions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jitomirskaya, Svetlana; Liu, Wencai
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0003-486X
• DOI: 10.4007/annals.2018.187.3.3
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 721-776
• 关键词: singular continuous-spectrum; SCHRODINGER-OPERATORS; anderson localization; hofstadter problem; mathieu operator; bethe-ansatz; reducibility; electrons; matrices; systems

摘要

We determine exact exponential asymptotics of eigenfunctions and of corresponding transfer matrices of the almost Mathieu operators for all frequencies in the localization regime. This uncovers a universal structure in their behavior, governed by the continued fraction expansion of the frequency, explaining some predictions in physics literature. In addition it proves the arithmetic version of the frequency transition conjecture. Finally, it leads to an explicit description of several non-regularity phenomena in the corresponding non-uniformly hyperbolic cocycles, which is also of interest as both the first natural example of some of those phenomena and, more generally, the first non-artificial model where non-regularity can be explicitly studied.