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We carry out the spectral analysis of matrix valued perturbations of 3-dimensional Dirac operators with variable magnetic field of constant direction. Under suitable assumptions on the magnetic field and on the pertubations, we obtain a…
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We study Schr\"odinger operators on $\R$ with measures as potentials. Choosing a suitable subset of measures we can work with a dynamical system consisting of measures. We then relate properties of this dynamical system with spectral…
One dimensional Dirac operators $$ L_{bc}(v) \, y = i \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 0 & -1 \end{pmatrix} \frac{dy}{dx} + v(x) y, \quad y = \begin{pmatrix} y_1 y_2 \end{pmatrix}, \quad x\in[0,\pi],$$ considered with $L^2$-potentials $ v(x) =…
The spectrum of one-dimensional discrete Schr\"odinger operators associated to strictly ergodic dynamical systems is shown to coincide with the set of zeros of the Lyapunov exponent if and only if the Lyapunov exponent exists uniformly.…
We study Schr\"odinger operators on the real line whose potentials are generated by an underlying ergodic subshift over a finite alphabet and a rule that replaces symbols by compactly supported potential pieces. We first develop the…
We prove a dichotomy of almost periodicity for reflectionless one-dimensional Dirac operators whose spectra satisfy certain geometric conditions, extending work of Volberg--Yuditskii. We also construct a weakly mixing Dirac operator with a…
One of the main tools used to understand both qualitative and quantitative spectral behaviour of periodic and almost periodic Schr\"odinger operators is the method of gauge transform. In this paper, we extend this method to an abstract…
We construct multidimensional almost-periodic Schr\"odinger operators whose spectrum has zero lower box counting dimension. In particular, the spectrum in these cases is a generalized Cantor set of zero Lebesgue measure.
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