Fractal spectrum and anomalous diffusion in the kicked Harper model

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Abstract
We consider a kicked system on the cylinder obtained upon quantization of a chaotic area-preserving map. We use the thermodynamic formalism to investigate the scaling properties of the fractal spectrum. In time evolution we observe anomalous diffusion with an exponent closely related to the Hausdorff dimension of the spectrum, and dependent upon the parameters of the system.