AbstractFor a normalized root system R in $${\mathbb {R}}^N$$ R N and a multiplicity function $$k\ge 0$$ k ≥ 0 let $${\mathbf {N}}=N+\sum _{\alpha \in R} k(\alpha )$$ N = N + ∑ α ∈ R k ( α ) . We denote by $$dw({\mathbf {x}})=\varPi _{\alpha \in R}|\langle {\mathbf {x}},\alpha \rangle |^{k(\alpha )}\,d{\mathbf {x}}$$ d w ( x ) = Π α ∈ R | ⟨ x , α ⟩ | k ( α ) d x the associated measure in $${\mathbb {R}}^N$$ R N . Let $$L=-\varDelta +V$$ L = - Δ + V , $$V\ge 0$$ V ≥ 0 , be the Dunkl–Schrödinger

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... perator on $${\mathbb {R}}^N$$ R N . Assume that there exists $$q >\max (1,\frac{{\mathbf {N}}}{2})$$ q > max ( 1 , N 2 ) such that V belongs to the reverse Hölder class $$\mathrm{{RH}}^{q}(dw)$$ RH q ( d w ) . We prove the Fefferman–Phong inequality for L. As an application, we conclude that the Hardy space $$H^1_{L}$$ H L 1 , which is originally defined by means of the maximal function associated with the semigroup $$e^{-tL}$$ e - t L , admits an atomic decomposition with local atoms in the sense of Goldberg, where their localizations are adapted to V.