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Ballistic transport for limit-periodic Schr\"odinger operators in one dimension

Spectral Theory 2023-05-30 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the transport properties of the class of limit-periodic continuum Schr\"odinger operators whose potentials are approximated exponentially quickly by a sequence of periodic functions. For such an operator HH, and XH(t)X_H(t) the Heisenberg evolution of the position operator, we show the limit of 1tXH(t)ψ\frac{1}{t}X_H(t)\psi as tt\to\infty exists and is nonzero for ψ0\psi\ne 0 belonging to a dense subspace of initial states which are sufficiently regular and of suitably rapid decay. This is viewed as a particularly strong form of ballistic transport, and this is the first time it has been proven in a continuum almost periodic non-periodic setting. In particular, this statement implies that for the initial states considered, the second moment grows quadratically in time.

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@article{arxiv.2109.12096,
  title  = {Ballistic transport for limit-periodic Schr\"odinger operators in one dimension},
  author = {Giorgio Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12096},
  year   = {2023}
}