H\"older continuity and Fourier asymptotics of spectral measures for 1D Schr\"odinger operators under exponentially decaying perturbations

TL;DR

This paper proves that spectral measures of 1D Schr"odinger operators with exponentially decaying potentials are Lipschitz continuous at the spectral edge, and shows the persistence of absolutely continuous spectrum and quantum dynamics properties under such perturbations.

Contribution

It establishes Lipschitz continuity of spectral measures for 1D Schr"odinger operators with exponentially decaying potentials, including quasi-periodic cases, and analyzes quantum return probabilities.

Findings

Spectral measures are Lipschitz continuous at the spectral edge.

Quantum return probability asymptotics remain unchanged under perturbations.

Absolutely continuous spectrum persists under exponentially decaying small perturbations.

Abstract

We establish $\frac{1}{2}$-H\"older continuity, or even the Lipschitz property, for the spectral measures of half-line discrete Schr\"odinger operators under suitable boundary conditions and exponentially decaying small potentials. These are the first known examples, apart from the free case, of Schr\"odinger operators with Lipschitz continuous spectral measures up to the spectral edge, and it was obtained as a consequence of the Dirichlet boundary condition. Notably, we show that the asymptotic behavior of the time-averaged quantum return probability, either $\log (t) / t$ or $1 / t$, as in the case of the free Laplacian, remains unchanged in this setting. Furthermore, we prove the persistence of the purely absolutely continuous spectrum and the $\frac{1}{2}$-H\"older continuity of the spectral measures for (Diophantine) quasi-periodic operators under exponentially decaying small perturbations. These results are optimal and hold for all energies, up to the border of the absolutely continuous spectrum.