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In [[mathematical physics]], the '''almost Mathieu operator'''<!--, named after [[?????? Mathieu]], --> arises in the study of the [[quantum Hall effect]]. It is given by
: <math> [H^{\lambda,\alpha}_\omega u](n) = u(n+1) + u(n-1) + 2 \lambda \cos(2\pi (\omega + n\alpha)) u(n), \, </math>


acting as a [[self-adjoint operator]] on the Hilbert space <math>\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})</math>. Here <math>\alpha,\omega \in\mathbb{T}, \lambda > 0</math> 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.<ref>{{cite book |first=Barry |last=Simon |chapter=Schrödinger operators in the twenty-first century |title=Mathematical Physics 2000 |pages=283–288 |publisher=Imp. Coll. Press |location=London |year=2000 |isbn=186094230X }}</ref>


For <math>\lambda = 1</math>, the almost Mathieu operator is sometimes called '''Harper's equation'''.
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== The spectral type ==
 
If <math>\alpha</math> is a [[rational number]], then <math>H^{\lambda,\alpha}_\omega</math>
is a periodic operator and by [[Floquet theory]] its [[spectrum (functional analysis)|spectrum]] is purely [[absolutely continuous]].
 
Now to the case when <math>\alpha</math> is [[Irrational number|irrational]].
Since the transformation <math> \omega \mapsto \omega + \alpha </math> is minimal, it follows that the spectrum of <math>H^{\lambda,\alpha}_\omega</math> does not depend on <math> \omega </math>. 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 <math> \omega </math>.
It is now known, that
*For <math>0 < \lambda < 1</math>, <math>H^{\lambda,\alpha}_\omega</math> has surely purely absolutely continuous spectrum. <ref>{{cite journal |first=A. |last=Avila |year=2008 |title=The absolutely continuous spectrum of the almost Mathieu operator |work=Preprint |arxiv=0810.2965 }}</ref> (This was one of Simon's problems.)
*For <math>\lambda= 1</math>, <math>H^{\lambda,\alpha}_\omega</math> has almost surely purely singular continuous spectrum.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gordon |first=A. Y. |last2=Jitomirskaya |first2=S. |last3=Last |first3=Y. |last4=Simon |first4=B. |title=Duality and singular continuous spectrum in the almost Mathieu equation |journal=[[Acta Mathematica|Acta Math.]] |volume=178 |year=1997 |issue=2 |pages=169–183 |doi=10.1007/BF02392693 }}</ref> (It is not known whether eigenvalues can exist for exceptional parameters.)
*For <math>\lambda > 1</math>, <math>H^{\lambda,\alpha}_\omega</math> has almost surely pure point spectrum and exhibits [[Anderson localization]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Jitomirskaya |first=Svetlana Ya. |title=Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator |journal=[[Annals of Mathematics|Ann. of Math.]] |volume=150 |year=1999 |issue=3 |pages=1159–1175 |doi= |jstor=121066 }}</ref> (It is known that almost surely can not be replaced by surely.)<ref>{{cite journal |first=J. |last=Avron |first2=B. |last2=Simon |title=Singular continuous spectrum for a class of almost periodic Jacobi matrices |journal=[[Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.]] |volume=6 |year=1982 |issue=1 |pages=81–85 |doi= |zbl=0491.47014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=S. |last=Jitomirskaya |first2=B. |last2=Simon |title=Operators with singular continuous spectrum, III. Almost periodic Schrödinger operators |journal=[[Communications in Mathematical Physics|Comm. Math. Phys.]] |volume=165 |year=1994 |issue=1 |pages=201–205 |zbl=0830.34074 }}</ref>
 
That the spectral measures are singular when <math> \lambda \geq 1 </math> follows (through the work of Last and Simon)
<ref>{{cite journal |first=Y. |last=Last |first2=B. |last2=Simon |title=Eigenfunctions, transfer matrices, and absolutely continuous spectrum of one-dimensional Schrödinger operators |journal=[[Inventiones Mathematicae|Invent. Math.]] |volume=135 |year=1999 |issue=2 |pages=329–367 |doi=10.1007/s002220050288 }}</ref>
from the lower bound on the [[Lyapunov exponent]] <math>\gamma(E)</math> given by
: <math> \gamma(E) \geq \max \{0,\log(\lambda)\}. \, </math>
 
This lower bound was proved independently by Avron, Simon and [[Michael Herman (mathematician)|Michael Herman]], after an earlier almost rigorous argument of Aubry and André. In fact, when <math> E </math> belongs to the spectrum, the inequality becomes an equality (the Aubry-André formula), proved by [[Jean Bourgain]] and Svetlana Jitomirskaya.<ref>{{cite journal |first=J. |last=Bourgain |first2=S. |last2=Jitomirskaya |title=Continuity of the Lyapunov exponent for quasiperiodic operators with analytic potential |journal=[[Journal of Statistical Physics]] |volume=108 |year=2002 |issue=5–6 |pages=1203–1218 |doi=10.1023/A:1019751801035 }}</ref>
 
== The structure of the spectrum ==
 
[[Image:Hofstadter's_butterfly.png|thumb|Hofstadter's Butterfly]]
 
Another striking characteristic of the almost Mathieu operator is that its spectrum is a [[Cantor set]] for all irrational <math>\alpha</math> and <math>\lambda > 0</math>. This was shown by [[Artur Avila|Avila]] and [[Svetlana Jitomirskaya|Jitomirskaya]] solving the by-then famous "Ten Martini Problem"<ref>{{cite journal |first=A. |last=Avila |first2=S. |last2=Jitomirskaya |title=The Ten Martini problem |work=Preprint |year=2005 |id={{ArXiv|math|0503363}} }}</ref> (also one of Simon's problems) after several earlier results (including generically<ref>{{cite journal |first=J. |last=Bellissard |first2=B. |last2=Simon |title=Cantor spectrum for the almost Mathieu equation |journal=[[Journal of Functional Analysis|J. Funct. Anal.]] |volume=48 |year=1982 |issue=3 |pages=408–419 |doi=10.1016/0022-1236(82)90094-5 }}</ref> and almost surely<ref>{{cite journal |last=Puig |first=Joaquim |title=Cantor spectrum for the almost Mathieu operator |journal=Comm. Math. Phys. |volume=244 |year=2004 |issue=2 |pages=297–309 |doi=10.1007/s00220-003-0977-3 }}</ref> with respect to the parameters).
 
Furthermore, the measure of the spectrum of the almost Mathieu operator is known to be
: <math>Leb(\sigma(H^{\lambda,\alpha}_\omega)) = |4 - 4 \lambda| \, </math>
 
for all <math>\lambda > 0</math>. For <math> \lambda = 1 </math> this means that the spectrum has zero measure (this was first proposed by [[Douglas Hofstadter]] and later became one of Simon's problems<ref>{{cite journal |first=A. |last=Avila |first2=R. |last2=Krikorian |title=Reducibility or non-uniform hyperbolicity for quasiperiodic Schrödinger cocycles |journal=[[Annals of Mathematics]] |volume=164 |year=2006 |issue=3 |pages=911–940 |doi=10.4007/annals.2006.164.911 }}</ref>). For <math> \lambda \neq 1 </math>, the formula was discovered numerically by Aubry and André and proved by Jitomirskaya and Krasovsky.
 
The study of the spectrum for <math> \lambda =1 </math> leads to the [[Hofstadter's butterfly]], where the spectrum is shown as a set.
 
== References ==
 
{{reflist|2}}
 
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[[Category:Mathematical physics]]

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