Slow dispersion in Floquet-Dirac Hamiltonians
Analysis of PDEs
2026-03-31 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We study dispersive decay for non-autonomous Hamiltonian systems. While the general theory for dispersion in such non-autonomous systems is largely open, it was shown \cite{kraisler2025time} that there exists a time-periodically forced one-dimensional Dirac equation with unusually slow dispersive decay rate of . It is to be expected that such behavior is not generic and requires a very particular forcing term; we provide a more general ansatz and systematic procedure to construct such an equation with a dispersive decay rate no faster than . Our limitations are purely algebraic and it stands to reason that arbitrarily slow decay, for every , should be achievable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.28715,
title = {Slow dispersion in Floquet-Dirac Hamiltonians},
author = {Anthony Bloch and Amir Sagiv and Stefan Steinerberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28715},
year = {2026}
}