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In mathematical physics, the almost Mathieu operator arises in the study of the quantum Hall effect. It is given by : acting as a self-adjoint operator on the Hilbert space . Here are parameters. In pure mathematics, its importance comes from the fact of being one of the best-understood examples of an ergodic Schrödinger operator. For example, three problems (now all solved) of Barry Simon's fifteen problems about Schrödinger operators "for the twenty-first century" featured the almost Mathieu operator. For , the almost Mathieu operator is sometimes called Harper's equation. == The spectral type == If is a rational number, then is a periodic operator and by Floquet theory its spectrum is purely absolutely continuous. Now to the case when is irrational. Since the transformation is minimal, it follows that the spectrum of does not depend on . On the other hand, by ergodicity, the supports of absolutely continuous, singular continuous, and pure point parts of the spectrum are almost surely independent of . It is now known, that *For , has surely purely absolutely continuous spectrum. (This was one of Simon's problems.) *For , has almost surely purely singular continuous spectrum. (It is not known whether eigenvalues can exist for exceptional parameters.) *For , has almost surely pure point spectrum and exhibits Anderson localization. (It is known that almost surely can not be replaced by surely.) That the spectral measures are singular when follows (through the work of Last and Simon) from the lower bound on the Lyapunov exponent given by : This lower bound was proved independently by Avron, Simon and Michael Herman, after an earlier almost rigorous argument of Aubry and André. In fact, when belongs to the spectrum, the inequality becomes an equality (the Aubry-André formula), proved by Jean Bourgain and Svetlana Jitomirskaya. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Almost Mathieu operator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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