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Publications and source records attributed to Svetlana Jitomirskaya.
We establish localization type dynamical bounds as a corollary of positive Lyapunov exponents for general operators with quasiperiodic potentials defined by piecewise Holder functions.
We introduce a notion of $β$-almost periodicity and prove quantitative lower spectral/quantum dynamical bounds for general bounded $β$-almost periodic potentials. Applications include a sharp arithmetic criterion of full spectral dimensionality for analytic quasiperiodic Schrödinger operators in the positive Lyapunov exponent regime and arithmetic criteria for families with zero Lyapunov exponents, with applications to Sturmian potentials and the critical almost Mathieu operator.
We establish Anderson localization for quasiperiodic operator families of the form $$ (H(x)ψ)(m)=ψ(m+1)+ψ(m-1)+λv(x+mα)ψ(m) $$ for all $λ>0$ and all Diophantine $α$, provided that $v$ is a $1$-periodic function satisfying a Lipschitz monotonicity condition on $[0,1)$. The localization is uniform on any energy interval on which Lyapunov exponent is bounded from below.
We give a simple argument that if a quasiperiodic multi-frequency Schrödinger cocycle is reducible to a constant rotation for almost all energies with respect to the density of states measure, then the spectrum of the dual operator is purely point for Lebesgue almost all values of the ergodic parameter $θ$. The result holds in the $L^2$ setting provided, in addition, that the conjugation preserves the fibered rotation number. Corollaries include localization for (long-range) 1D analytic potentials with dual ac spectrum and Diophantine frequency as well as a new result on multidimensional localization.
We prove that the exponential moments of the position operator stay bounded for the supercritical almost Mathieu operator with Diophantine frequency.
We establish sharp results on the modulus of continuity of the distribution of the spectral measure for one-frequency Schrodinger operators with Diophantine frequencies in the region of absolutely continuous spectrum. More precisely, we establish 1/2-Holder continuity near almost reducible energies (an essential support of absolutely continuous spectrum). For non-perturbatively small potentials (and for the almost Mathieu operator with subcritical coupling), our results apply for all energies.
We develop a quantitative version of Aubry duality and use it to obtain several sharp estimates for the dynamics of Schrödinger cocycles associated to a non-perturbatively small analytic potential and Diophantine frequency. In particular, we establish the full version of Eliasson's reducibility theory in this regime (our approach actually leads to improvements even in the perturbative regime: we are able to show, for all energies, ``almost reducibility'' in some band of analyticity). We also prove 1/2-Hölder continuity of the integrated density of states. For the almost Mathieu operator, our results hold through the entire regime of sub-critical coupling and imply also the dry version of the Ten Martini Problem for the concerned parameters.
A method is presented for proving upper bounds on the moments of the position operator when the dynamics of quantum wavepackets is governed by a random (possibly correlated) Jacobi matrix. As an application, one obtains sharp upper bounds on the diffusion exponents for random polymer models, coinciding with the lower bounds obtained in a prior work. The second application is an elementary argument (not using multiscale analysis or the Aizenman-Molchanov method) showing that under the condition of uniformly positive Lyapunov exponents, the moments of the position operator grow at most logarithmically in time.
We prove the conjecture (known as the ``Ten Martini Problem'' after Kac and Simon) that the spectrum of the almost Mathieu operator is a Cantor set for all non-zero values of the coupling and all irrational frequencies.