Imbedded singular continuous spectrum for Schrodinger operators
Imbedded singular continuous spectrum for Schrodinger operators
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薛定谔算子的嵌入式奇异连续谱
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2001
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A. Kiselev
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A. Kiselev
(1.1) Hv = -^ + V{x) and some self-adjoint boundary condition at zero. The operator (1.1) describes a charged particle, such as an electron, in the electric field V(x). When V(x) is decaying quickly, one expects the spectral and dynamical properties of Hy to remain close to those of the free operator Ho. Recall that with the operator (1.1) one can associate in a canonical way a spectral measure p, (see, for example, [6, 2]) which contains much information about the quantum system. The classical result in this direction, going back to the beginning of the century, is that if V G L1, the spectral measure on the positive semi-axis remains purely absolutely continuous. In one dimension, an absolutely continuous spectrum corresponds to the ballistic rate of propagation of the particle. A natural question to ask is what are the critical rates of decay at which some changes in the spectral and dynamical properties of Hy may happen. As far as V(x) has any decay at all, the essential spectrum coincides with [0, oo), but the quality of the spectrum and dynamics may change. In 1928, Wigner and von Neumann [27] showed that there exist potentials V(x) satisfying V(x) < ^jsuch that Hy has positive imbedded eigenvalue E = 1. This is a purely quantum resonance phenomenon, since V can be chosen arbitrarily small and the bound state originates from long-range correlations in the potential rather than the usual confining effect. Naboko [17] and Simon [25] provided constructions which show that much more drastic changes are possible if the potential decays arbitrarily slower than Coulomb. Namely, for any positive function h(x) which grows at infinity, there exist potentials V such that |V(x)| < yjgand Hy has a dense set of positive eigenvalues. Due to some recent results [3, 21], it is known that the absolutely continuous spectrum on the positive semi-axis is preserved for |V(o;)| < C(l + x)~l/2~e and in fact for V G L2 [8]. More precisely, for such potentials the absolutely continuous part of the spectral measure, /iac, gives positive weight to any subset of (0, oo) of positive Lebesgue measure. Therefore, the Naboko