Dispersive decay bounds for the SSH model on the half-line
Mathematical Physics
2026-05-12 v1 Analysis of PDEs
math.MP
Abstract
We study the Schr\"odinger flow for the SSH model, a class of self-adjoint discrete dimer lattice Hamiltonians on the half-line. Using oscillatory integral techniques, we prove dispersive time-decay estimates, which quantify the spreading of energy throughout the lattice for a localized initial condition. Furthermore, we determine precise dependence of the constants in the decay rates on the parameters of the Hamiltonian. The analysis is complicated by the fact that as a consequence of the boundary condition, the expression for the propagator contains oscillatory integrals with nonintegrable singularities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.08372,
title = {Dispersive decay bounds for the SSH model on the half-line},
author = {Remy Kassem and Amir Sagiv and Michael I. Weinstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08372},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
96 pages, 5 figures