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Spectral Properties of Non-Unitary Band Matrices

Mathematical Physics 2023-07-19 v2 math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We consider families of random non-unitary contraction operators defined as deformations of CMV matrices which appear naturally in the study of random quantum walks on trees or lattices. We establish several deterministic and almost sure results about the location and nature of the spectrum of such non-normal operators as a function of their parameters. We relate these results to the analysis of certain random quantum walks, the dynamics of which can be studied by means of iterates of such random non-unitary contraction operators.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3824,
  title  = {Spectral Properties of Non-Unitary Band Matrices},
  author = {Eman Hamza and Alain Joye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3824},
  year   = {2023}
}

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updated version, to appear in Annales Henri Poincare