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We study spectral properties of discrete Schrödinger operators with potentials obtained via dimerization of a class of aperiodic sequences. It is shown that both the nature of the autocorrelation measure of a regular sequence and the presence of generic (full probability) singular continuous spectrum in the hull of primitive and palindromic (four block substitution) potentials are robust under dimerization. Generic results also hold for circle potentials. We illustrate these results with numerical studies of the quantum mean square displacement as a function of time. The numerical techniques provide a very fast algorithm for the time evolution of wave packets.
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Carvalho, T.O., de Oliveira, C.R. Spectra and Transport in Almost Periodic Dimers. Journal of Statistical Physics 107, 1015–1030 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015153523475
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