In this paper, first we study a complete smooth metric measure space (M n , g, e −f dv) with the (∞)-Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature Ric f ≥ a 2 g for some positive constant a. It is known that the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian ∆ f for M is discrete and the first nonzero eigenvalue of ∆ f has lower bound a 2 . We prove that if the lower bound a 2 is achieved with multiplicity k ≥ 1, then k ≤ n, M is isometric to Σ n−k × R k for some complete (n − k)-dimensional manifold Σ and by passing an isometry, (M n , g, e −f dv) must split off a gradient shrinking Ricci soliton (R k , gcan, a 4 |t| 2 ), t ∈ R k . This result has an application to gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Secondly, we study the drifted Laplacian L for properly immersed self-shrinkers in the Euclidean space R n+p , p ≥ 1 and show the discreteness of the spectrum of L and a logarithmic Sobolev inequality.