activity
20242026
collaborators

12 papers

math.SP2026

Computing Spectral Size: Rigorous Algorithms and the Limits of Computation

Matthew J. Colbrook, Mark Embree, Jake Fillman

Many structures in mathematical physics and dynamics exhibit intricate fractal geometry. Such behavior appears prominently in quantum mechanics and materials science through spectr…

quant-ph2026

Mobility edges in pseudo-unitary quasiperiodic quantum walks

Christopher Cedzich, Jake Fillman

We introduce a Floquet quasicrystal that simulates the motion of Bloch electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field in discrete time steps. We admit the hopping to be non-reciprocal w…

math.SP2026

Continuum Fibonacci Schrödinger Operators in the Strongly Coupled Regime

David Damanik, Mark Embree, Jake Fillman +2

We study Schrödinger operators on the real line whose potentials are generated by the Fibonacci substitution sequence and a rule that replaces symbols by compactly supported poten…

math.SP2026

Absence of ballistic motion and presence of almost-ballistic motion for unitary operators with pure point spectrum

Christopher Cedzich, Jake Fillman, Luis Velázquez

We adapt two results of Simon and collaborators to the setting of discrete-time unitary dynamics. We show that pure point spectrum precludes ballistic motion, and exhibit a family…

math.SP2026

Thin Spectra for Periodic and Ergodic Word Models

Jake Fillman, Michala N. Gradner, Hannah J. Hendricks

We establish a new and simple criterion that suffices to generate many spectral gaps for periodic word models. This leads to new examples of ergodic Schrödinger operators with Can…

math.SP2025

Measure of the spectra of periodic graph operators in the large-coupling limit

Jake Fillman

We derive a sharp criterion on the spectra of periodic discrete Schrödinger operators acting on connected periodic lattices: the measure of the spectrum goes to zero as the coupli…