Upper bounds in quantum dynamics

We develop a general method to bound the spreading of an entire wavepacket under Schrödinger dynamics from above. This method derives upper bounds on time-averaged moments of the position operator from lower bounds on norms of transfer matrices at complex energies.

This general result is applied to the Fibonacci operator. We find that at sufficiently large coupling, all transport exponents take values strictly between zero and one. This is the first rigorous result on anomalous transport.

For quasi-periodic potentials associated with trigonometric polynomials, we prove that all lower transport exponents and, under a weak assumption on the frequency, all upper transport exponents vanish for all phases if the Lyapunov exponent is uniformly bounded away from zero. By a well-known result of Herman, this assumption always holds at sufficiently large coupling. For the particular case of the almost Mathieu operator, our result applies for coupling greater than two.

     

Calculating the Lyapunov exponent for generalized linear systems with exponentially distributed elements of the transition matrix

A stochastic dynamic system of second order is considered. The system evolution is described by a dynamic equation with a stochastic transition matrix, which is linear in the idempotent algebra with operations of maximum and addition. It is assumed that some entries of the matrix are zero constants and all other entries are mutually independent and exponentially distributed. The problem considered is the computation of the Lyapunov exponent, which is defined as the average asymptotic rate of growth of the state vector of the system. The known results related to this problem are limited to systems whose matrices have zero off-diagonal entries. In the cases of matrices with a zero row, zero diagonal entries, or only one zero entry, the Lyapunov exponent is calculated using an approach which is based on constructing and analyzing a certain sequence of one-dimensional distribution functions. The value of the Lyapunov exponent is calculated as the average value of a random variable determined by the limiting distribution of this sequence.     

Continuum Schrödinger Operators Associated With Aperiodic Subshifts

We study Schrödinger operators on the real line whose potentials are generated by an underlying ergodic subshift over a finite alphabet and a rule that replaces symbols by compactly supported potential pieces. We first develop the standard theory that shows that the spectrum and the spectral type are almost surely constant and that identifies the almost sure absolutely continuous spectrum with the essential closure of the set of energies with vanishing Lyapunov exponent. Using results of Damanik–Lenz and Klassert–Lenz–Stollmann, we also show that the spectrum is a Cantor set of zero Lebesgue measure if the subshift satisfies the Boshernitzan condition and the potentials are aperiodic and irreducible. We then study the case of the Fibonacci subshift in detail and prove results for the local Hausdorff dimension of the spectrum at a given energy in terms of the value of the associated Fricke–Vogt invariant. These results are elucidated for some simple choices of the local potential pieces, such as piecewise constant ones and local point interactions. In the latter special case, our results explain the occurrence of so-called pseudo bands, which have been pointed out in the physics literature.     

Joint Continuity of Lyapunov Exponent for Finitely Smooth Quasi-periodic Schr?dinger Cocycles

We prove the joint continuity of Lyapunov exponent in the energy and the Diophantine frequency for quasi-periodic Schr?dinger cocycles with the C~2 cos-type potentials. In particular, the Lyapunov exponent is log-H?lder continuous at each Diophantine frequency.     

Analytical expression for zero Lyapunov exponent of chaotic noised oscillators

This paper is devoted to the analytical formula for zero Lyapunov exponent describing the dynamics of interacting chaotic systems with noise. The deduced analytical prediction is in a good agreement with the value of zero Lyapunov exponent obtained numerically for two unidirectionally coupled Rössler oscillators. We have shown that this good agreement is observed for a wide diapason of the values of the control parameters.     

The relation between quenched and annealed Lyapunov exponents in random potential on trees

Our subject of interest is a simple symmetric random walk on the integers which faces a random risk to be killed. This risk is described by random potentials, which are defined by a sequence of independent and identically distributed non-negative random variables. To determine the risk of taking a walk in these potentials we consider the decay of the Green function. There are two possible tools to describe this decay: The quenched Lyapunov exponent and the annealed Lyapunov exponent. It turns out that on the integers and on regular trees we can state a precise relation between these two.     

Limit-periodic Schrödinger operators in the regime of positive Lyapunov exponents

We investigate the spectral properties of discrete one-dimensional Schrödinger operators whose potentials are generated by continuous sampling along the orbits of a minimal translation of a Cantor group. We show that for given Cantor group and minimal translation, there is a dense set of continuous sampling functions such that the spectrum of the associated operators has zero Hausdorff dimension and all spectral measures are purely singular continuous. The associated Lyapunov exponent is a continuous strictly positive function of the energy. It is possible to include a coupling constant in the model and these results then hold for every non-zero value of the coupling constant.     

Random logistic maps and Lyapunov exponents

We prove that under certain basic regularity conditions, a random iteration of logistic maps converges to a random point attractor when the Lyapunov exponent is negative, and does not converge to a point when the Lyapunov exponent is positive.     

On the stability by the first approximation of Lyapunov characteristic exponents in critical cases

In terms of generalized Lyapunov exponents, we prove an analog of the Lyapunov theorem on the stability by the first approximation for the case in which the upper exponent is zero.     

New proof of continuity of Lyapunov exponents for a class of smooth Schrödinger cocycles with weak Liouville frequencies

We reconsider the continuity of the Lyapunov exponents for a class of smooth Schrödinger cocycles with a C^2 cos-type potential and a weak Liouville frequency. We propose a new method to prove that the Lyapunov exponent is continuous in energies. In particular, a large deviation theorem is not needed in the proof.     

Non-perturbative positive Lyapunov exponent of Schrödinger equations and its applications to skew-shift mapping

We first study the discrete Schrödinger equations with analytic potentials given by a class of transformations. It is shown that if the coupling number is large, then the Lyapunov exponent equals approximately to the logarithm of this coupling number. When the transformation becomes the skew-shift mapping, we prove that the Lyapunov exponent is weak Hölder continuous, and the spectrum satisfies Anderson Localization and contains large intervals. Moreover, all of these conclusions are non-perturbative.     

Zero measure Cantor spectra for continuum one-dimensional quasicrystals

We study Schrödinger operators on R$\mathbb{R}$ with measures as potentials. Choosing a suitable subset of measures we can work with a dynamical system consisting of measures. We then relate properties of this dynamical system with spectral properties of the associated operators. The constant spectrum in the strictly ergodic case coincides with the union of the zeros of the Lyapunov exponent and the set of non-uniformities of the transfer matrices. This result enables us to prove Cantor spectra of zero Lebesgue measure for a large class of operator families, including many operator families generated by aperiodic subshifts.     

Persistence of nonhyperbolic measures for <Emphasis Type="Italic">C</Emphasis><Superscript>1</Superscript>-diffeomorphisms

In the space of diffeomorphisms of an arbitrary closed manifold of dimension ≥ 3, we construct an open set such that each difteomorphism in this set has an invariant ergodic measure with respect to which one of its Lyapunov exponents is zero. These difteomorphisins are constructed to have a partially hyperbolic invariant set on which the dynamics is conjugate to a soft skew product with the circle as the fiber. It is the central Lyapunov exponent that proves to be zero in this case, and the construction is based on an analysis of properties of the corresponding skew products.     

Maximal Lyapunov exponents for random matrix products

In this article we study the Lyapunov exponent for random matrix products of positive matrices and express them in terms of associated complex functions. This leads to new explicit formulae for the Lyapunov exponents and to an efficient method for their computation.     

Explicit invariant measures for products of random matrices

We construct explicit invariant measures for a family of infinite products of random, independent, identically-distributed elements of SL. The matrices in the product are such that one entry is gamma-distributed along a ray in the complex plane. When the ray is the positive real axis, the products are those associated with a continued fraction studied by Letac & Seshadri [Z. Wahr. Verw. Geb. 62 (1983) 485-489], who showed that the distribution of the continued fraction is a generalised inverse Gaussian. We extend this result by finding the distribution for an arbitrary ray in the complex right-half plane, and thus compute the corresponding Lyapunov exponent explicitly. When the ray lies on the imaginary axis, the matrices in the infinite product coincide with the transfer matrices associated with a one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operator with a random, gamma-distributed potential. Hence, the explicit knowledge of the Lyapunov exponent may be used to estimate the (exponential) rate of localisation of the eigenstates.

     

Anderson localization for the discrete one-dimensional quasi-periodic Schrödinger operator with potential defined by a Gevrey-class function

In this paper we consider the discrete one-dimensional Schrödinger operator with quasi-periodic potential v_n=λv(x+nω). We assume that the frequency ω satisfies a strong Diophantine condition and that the function v belongs to a Gevrey class, and it satisfies a transversality condition. Under these assumptions we prove—in the perturbative regime—that for large disorder λ and for most frequencies ω the operator satisfies Anderson localization. Moreover, we show that the associated Lyapunov exponent is positive for all energies, and that the Lyapunov exponent and the integrated density of states are continuous functions with a certain modulus of continuity. We also prove a partial nonperturbative result assuming that the function v belongs to some particular Gevrey classes.     

Uniform positivity of Lyapunov exponent for a class of smooth Schrödinger cocycles with weak Liouville frequencies

We prove uniform positivity of the Lyapunov exponent for quasiperiodic Schrödinger cocycles with C ² cos-type potentials, large coupling constants, and fixed weak Liouville frequencies.     

An Ellipsoidal Billiard with a Quadratic Potential

There exists an infinite hierarchy of integrable generalizations of the geodesic flow on an n-dimensional ellipsoid. These generalizations describe the motion of a point in the force fields of certain polynomial potentials. In the limit as one of semiaxes of the ellipsoid tends to zero, one obtains integrable mappings corresponding to billiards with polynomial potentials inside an (n-1)-dimensional ellipsoid.In this paper, for the first time we give explicit expressions for the ellipsoidal billiard with a quadratic (Hooke) potential, its representation in Lax form, and a theta function solution. We also indicate the generating function of the restriction of the potential billiard map to a level set of an energy type integral. The method we use to obtain theta function solutions is different from those applied earlier and is based on the calculation of limit values of meromorphic functions on generalized Jacobians.     

Almost sure stability of linear stochastic differential equations with jumps

 Under the nondegenerate condition as in the diffusion case, see [14, 21, 6], the linear stochastic jump-diffusion process projected on the unit sphere is a strong Feller process and has a unique invariant measure which is also ergodic using the relation between the transition probabilities of jump-diffusions and the corresponding diffusions due to [22]. The unique deterministic Lyapunov exponent can be represented by the Furstenberg-Khas'minskii formula as an integral over the sphere or the projective space with respect to the ergodic invariant measure so that the almost sure asymptotic stability of linear stochastic systems with jumps depends on its sign. The critical case of zero Lyapunov exponent is discussed and a large deviations result for asymptotically stable systems is further investigated. Several examples are treated for illustration. Received: 22 June 2000 / Revised version: 20 November 2001 / Published online: 13 May 2002