The Maxwell operator in a 3D cylinder is considered. The coefficients are assumed to be scalar functions depending on the longitudinal variable only. Such operator is represented as a sum of countable set of matrix differential operators of first order acting in $L_2({mathbb R})$. Based on this representation we give a detailed description of the structure of the spectrum of the Maxwell operator in two particular cases: 1) in the case of coefficients stabilizing at infinity; and 2) in the case of periodic coefficients.
We give sufficient conditions for the presence of the absolutely continuous spectrum of a Schrodinger operator on a regular rooted tree without loops (also called regular Bethe lattice or Cayley tree).
We consider the spectrum of the almost Mathieu operator $H_alpha$ with frequency $alpha$ and in the case of the critical coupling. Let an irrational $alpha$ be such that $|alpha-p_n/q_n|<c q_n^{-varkappa}$, where $p_n/q_n$, $n=1,2,dots$ are the convergents to $alpha$, and $c$, $varkappa$ are positive absolute constants, $varkappa<56$. Assuming certain conditions on the parity of the coefficients of the continued fraction of $alpha$, we show that the central gaps of $H_{p_n/q_n}$, $n=1,2,dots$, are inherited as spectral gaps of $H_alpha$ of length at least $cq_n^{-varkappa/2}$, $c>0$.
This paper is devoted to semiclassical estimates of the eigenvalues of the Pauli operator on a bounded open set whose boundary carries Dirichlet conditions. Assuming that the magnetic field is positive and a few generic conditions, we establish the simplicity of the eigenvalues and provide accurate asymptotic estimates involving Segal-Bargmann and Hardy spaces associated with the magnetic field.
In this article, we consider the semiclassical Schrodinger operator $P = - h^{2} Delta + V$ in $mathbb{R}^{d}$ with confining non-negative potential $V$ which vanishes, and study its low-lying eigenvalues $lambda_{k} ( P )$ as $h to 0$. First, we give a necessary and sufficient criterion upon $V^{-1} ( 0 )$ for $lambda_{1} ( P ) h^{- 2}$ to be bounded. When $d = 1$ and $V^{-1} ( 0 ) = { 0 }$, we are able to control the eigenvalues $lambda_{k} ( P )$ for monotonous potentials by a quantity linked to an interval $I_{h}$, determined by an implicit relation involving $V$ and $h$. Next, we consider the case where $V$ has a flat minimum, in the sense that it vanishes to infinite order. We give the asymptotic of the eigenvalues: they behave as the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian on $I_{h}$. Our analysis includes an asymptotic of the associated eigenvectors and extends in particular cases to higher dimensions.
We consider the discrete spectrum of the two-dimensional Hamiltonian $H=H_0+V$, where $H_0$ is a Schrodinger operator with a non-constant magnetic field $B$ that depends only on one of the spatial variables, and $V$ is an electric potential that decays at infinity. We study the accumulation rate of the eigenvalues of H in the gaps of its essential spectrum. First, under some general conditions on $B$ and $V$, we introduce effective Hamiltonians that govern the main asymptotic term of the eigenvalue counting function. Further, we use the effective Hamiltonians to find the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues in the case where the potential V is a power-like decaying function and in the case where it is a compactly supported function, showing a semiclassical behavior of the eigenvalues in the first case and a non-semiclassical behavior in the second one. We also provide a criterion for the finiteness of the number of eigenvalues in the gaps of the essential spectrum of $H$