Resonance Tongues and Spectral Gaps in Quasi-Periodic Schrödinger Operators with One or More Frequencies. A Numerical Exploration

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 649-669

  Puig, Joaquim ^a   Simó, Carles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lyapunov exponent; Numerical explorations; Quasi periodic cocycles and skew products; Quasi periodic Schr dinger operators; Resonance tongues; Rotation number; Spectral gaps

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952036293     PISSN: 10407294     EISSN: 15729222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10884-010-9199-5     Document Type: Article

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