Arbitrarily Fast Quantum Dispersion in Long-Range Crystals

Abstract: We construct the first examples of long-range crystals exhibiting arbitrarily fast polynomial quantum dispersion. The Floquet functions of our Hamiltonians are highly oscillatory Weierstrass functions, whose rough autosimilar structure drives the fast dispersion. The proof develops a new Fourier decay theory for $C<sup>α$ images of Lebesgue measure, based on a Dolgopyat-inspired transfer operator method, and yields a van der Corput lemma for Weierstrass functions. As a consequence, the local time of classical Weierstrass functions of sufficiently large lacunarity exists and is $C<sup>k$, answering a question raised by Geman and Horowitz in 1980.