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We study the spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian and prove upper and lower bounds for its fractal dimension in the large coupling regime. These bounds show that as \(\lambda \to \infty, {\rm dim} (\sigma(H_\lambda)) \cdot {\rm log} \lambda\)converges to an explicit constant, \({\rm log}(1+\sqrt{2})\approx 0.88137\) . We also discuss consequences of these results for the rate of propagation of a wavepacket that evolves according to Schrödinger dynamics generated by the Fibonacci Hamiltonian.
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Communicated by B. Simon.
D. D. was supported in part by NSF grant DMS��0653720.
M. E. was supported by NSF grant DMS-CAREER-0449973.
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Damanik, D., Embree, M., Gorodetski, A. et al. The Fractal Dimension of the Spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian. Commun. Math. Phys. 280, 499–516 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-008-0451-3
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