The Spectrum of a Schr\"odinger Operator With Small Quasi-Periodic Potential is Homogeneous

Abstract

We consider the quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operator $$ [H \psi](x) = -\psi"(x) + V(x) \psi(x) $$ in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$, where the potential is given by $$ V(x) = \sum_{m \in \mathbb{Z}^\nu \setminus \{ 0 \}} c(m)\exp (2\pi i m \omega x) $$ with a Diophantine frequency vector $\omega = (\omega_1, \dots, \omega_\nu) \in \mathbb{R}^\nu$ and exponentially decaying Fourier coefficients $|c(m)| \le \varepsilon \exp(-\kappa_0|m|)$. In the regime of small $\varepsilon > 0$ we show that the spectrum of the operator $H$ is homogeneous in the sense of Carleson.