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Anomalous electron trapping by magnetic flux tubes and electric current vortices

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v3 Condensed Matter math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider an electron with an anomalous magnetic moment, g>2, confined to a plane and interacting with a nonhomogeneous magnetic field B, and investigate the corresponding Pauli Hamiltonian. We prove a lower bound on the number of bound states for the case when B is of a compact support and the related flux is N+ϵ,ϵ(0,1]N+\epsilon, \epsilon\in(0,1]. In particular, there are at least N+1 bound states if B does not change sign. We also consider the situation where the magnetic field is due to a localized rotationally symmetric electric current vortex in the plane. In this case the flux is zero; there is a pair of bound states for a weak coupling, and higher orbital-momentum "spin-down" states appearing as the current strength increases.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/9810016,
  title  = {Anomalous electron trapping by magnetic flux tubes and electric current vortices},
  author = {F. Bentosela and P. Exner and V. A. Zagrebnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/9810016},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, LaTeX, to appear in Proceedings of QMath7, Prague 1997, published in the Birkhauser series "Operator Theory: Advances and Applications; the final version with a correction in Thm 2