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We show that SL(2,R) cocycles with a positive Lyapunov exponent are dense in all regularity classes and for all non-periodic dynamical systems. For Schr\"odinger cocycles, we show prevalence of potentials for which the Lyapunov exponent is…
We show that for any doubling map generated $C^1$ monotone potential with derivative uniformly bounded away from zero, the Lyapunov exponent of the associated Schr\"odinger operators is uniformly positive for all energies provided the…
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We prove a conditional theorem on the positivity of the Lyapunov exponent for a Schr\"odinger cocycle over a skew shift base with a cosine potential and the golden ratio as frequency. For coupling below 1, which is the threshold for…
We study lower bounds on the Lyapunov exponent associated with one-frequency quasiperiodic Schr\"odinger operators with an added finite valued background potential. We prove that, for sufficiently large coupling constant, the Lyapunov…
We study the Chirikov (standard) map at large coupling $\lambda \gg 1$, and prove that the Lyapounov exponent of the associated Schroedinger operator is of order $\log \lambda$ except for a set of energies of measure $\exp(-c…
In this paper, we study the regularity of the Lyapunov exponent for quasiperiodic Schr\"odinger cocycles with $C^2$ cos-type potentials, large coupling constants, and a fixed Diophantine frequency. We obtain the absolute continuity of the…
We consider discrete one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators whose potentials are generated by sampling along the orbits of a general hyperbolic transformation. Specifically, we show that if the sampling function is a non-constant H\"older…
We prove the H\"older continuity of the Lyapunov exponent for quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger cocycles with a $C^2$ cos-type potential and any fixed Liouvillean frequency, provided the coupling constant is sufficiently large. Moreover, the…
One knows that the set of quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger cocycles with positive Lyapunov exponent is open and dense in the analytic topology. In this paper, we construct cocycles with positive Lyapunov exponent which can be approximated by…
We show that for a class of $C^2$ quasiperiodic potentials and for any Diophantine frequency, the Lyapunov exponents of the corresponding Schr\"odinger cocycles are uniformly positive and weak H\"older continuous as function of energies. As…
We consider an m-dimensional analytic cocycle with underlying dynamics given by an irrational translation on the circle. Assuming that the d-dimensional upper left corner of the cocycle is typically large enough, we prove that the d largest…
We show that discrete one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators on the half-line with ergodic potentials generated by the doubling map on the circle, $V_\theta(n) = f(2^n \theta)$, may be realized as the half-line restrictions of a…
We consider an Arnold's Cat Map generated $C^1$ bounded potential with the directional derivative in the unstable direction bounded away from zero. We show that the Lyapunov exponent for the associated Shr\"odinger Operator is uniformly…
We study discontinuity of the Lyapunov exponent. We construct a limit-periodic Schr\"odinger operator, of which the Lyapunov exponent has a positive measure set of discontinuities. We also show that the limit-periodic potentials, whose…
It is shown that Schrodinger operators defined from the standard map have positive (mean) Lyapounov exponents for almost all energies
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A variant of multiscale analysis for ergodic Schr\"odinger operators is developed. This enables us to prove positivity of Lyapunov exponents given initial scale estimates and an initial Wegner estimate. This is then applied to high…
We consider products of matrices of the form $A_n=O_n+\epsilon N_n$ where $O_n$ is a sequence of $d\times d$ orthogonal matrices and $N_n$ has independent standard normal entries and the $(N_n)$ are mutually independent. We study the…
We consider Schr\"odinger operators in $\ell^2(\Z)$ whose potentials are defined via continuous sampling along the orbits of a homeomorphism on a compact metric space. We show that for each non-atomic ergodic measure $\mu$, there is a dense…