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Approximate eigenfunctions for some aperiodic crystals

Mathematical Physics 2026-07-09 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Functional Analysis Spectral Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this paper, we consider Hamiltonians for aperiodic crystals of the form \begin{align*} H_\varepsilon:=T(-i\nabla_x+{\mathbf A}(x,\varepsilon x))+V(x,\varepsilon x),\qquad x\in {\mathbb R}^d \end{align*} where TT represents either a Dirac operators or a Schr\"odinger operator, and xA(x,X)x\mapsto {\mathbf A}(x,X) and xV(x,X)x\mapsto V(x,X) are L\mathbb L-periodic with respect to some lattice LRd\mathbb L\subset{\mathbb R}^d. Let \begin{align*} (k,X)\ni {\mathbb R}^d\times {\mathbb R}^d\mapsto h(k,X):=T(-i\nabla_x+k+{\mathbf A}(x,X))+V(x,X) \end{align*} be a family of operators acting on Lper2(Rd/L)L^2_{\rm per}(\mathbb{R}^d/\mathbb{L}) with periodic boundary conditions. We show that, under some suitable assumptions on the family of operators (h(k,X))k,X (h(k,X))_{k,X} around an energy level e0Re_0\in {\mathbb R} and some points (k0,X0)Rd×Rd(k_0,X_0)\in {\mathbb R}^d\times {\mathbb R}^d, one can construct localized approximate eigenfunctions ΦεL2(Rd)\Phi_\varepsilon\in L^2({\mathbb R}^d) of the operator HεH_\varepsilon such that for ε\varepsilon small enough and for some m{1,2}m\in \{1,2\} and μR\mu\in {\mathbb R}, \begin{align}\label{eq:abstract} \|(H_\varepsilon-e_0-\varepsilon^{\frac{m}{2}}\mu)\Phi_\varepsilon\|_{L^2({\mathbb R}^d)}={\mathcal O}(\varepsilon^{\frac{m}{2}+\frac{1}{4}}). \end{align} with \begin{align*} \|\Phi_\varepsilon\|_{L^2({\mathbb R}^d)}=\frac{1}{|{\mathbb R}^d/\mathbb L|^{1/2}}+{\mathcal O}(\sqrt{\varepsilon}). \end{align*}

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@article{arxiv.2607.08320,
  title  = {Approximate eigenfunctions for some aperiodic crystals},
  author = {Long Meng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.08320},
  year   = {2026}
}

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