Dispersive estimate for quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operators on 1-$d$ lattices

TL;DR

This paper establishes a dispersive decay estimate for solutions of one-dimensional quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators with small analytic potentials, demonstrating decay rates with logarithmic corrections for all phase parameters.

Contribution

It provides the first dispersive estimate for 1D quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators with small analytic potentials, including explicit logarithmic correction factors.

Findings

Dispersive decay rate of t^{-1/3} with logarithmic corrections.

Estimate holds uniformly for all phase parameters.

Results apply to small analytic potentials on the torus.

Abstract

Consider the one-dimensional discrete Schr\"odinger operator $H_{\theta}$: $$(H_{\theta} q)_n=-(q_{n+1}+q_{n-1})+ V(\theta+n\omega) q_n \ , \quad n\in Z \ ,$$ with $\omega\in R^d$ Diophantine, and $V$ a real-analytic function on $ T^d=( R/2\pi Z)^d$. For $V$ sufficiently small, we prove the dispersive estimate: {for every $\phi\in\ell^1( Z)$,} $$ \| e^{-{\rm i}tH_{\theta}}\phi \|_{\ell^\infty} \leq K_0 \frac{ |\ln\varepsilon_0|^{a(\ln\ln(2+\langle t\rangle))^2 d}} {\langle t\rangle^{\frac13}} \|\phi\|_{\ell^1} \ , \quad \langle t \rangle:=\sqrt{1+t^2} \ ,$$ {with $a$ and $K_0$ two absolute constants} and $\varepsilon_0$ an analytic norm of $V$. The estimate holds for every $\theta\in T^d$.