Delocalized spectra of Landau operators on helical surfaces
Mathematical Physics
2022-10-21 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
K-Theory and Homology
math.MP
Spectral Theory
Abstract
On a flat surface, the Landau operator, or quantum Hall Hamiltonian, has spectrum a discrete set of infinitely degenerate Landau levels. We consider surfaces with asymptotically constant curvature away from a possibly non-compact submanifold, the helicoid being our main example. The Landau levels remain isolated, provided the spectrum is considered in an appropriate Hilbert module over the Roe algebra of the surface delocalized away from the submanifold. Delocalized coarse indices may then be assigned to them. As an application, we prove that Landau operators on helical surfaces have no spectral gaps above the lowest Landau level.
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@article{arxiv.2201.05416,
title = {Delocalized spectra of Landau operators on helical surfaces},
author = {Yosuke Kubota and Matthias Ludewig and Guo Chuan Thiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05416},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
35 pages, 1 figure, new Background section added, to appear in CMP