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Magnetic Schr\"odinger operators on armchair nanotubes

Spectral Theory 2008-04-02 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the Schr\"odinger operator with a periodic potential on a quasi 1D continuous periodic model of armchair nanotubes in R3\R^3 in a uniform magnetic field (with amplitude BRB\in \R), which is parallel to the axis of the nanotube. The spectrum of this operator consists of an absolutely continuous part (spectral bands separated by gaps) plus an infinite number of eigenvalues with infinite multiplicity. We describe all eigenfunctions with the same eigenvalue including compactly supported. We describe the spectrum as a function of BB. For some specific potentials we prove an existence of gaps independent on the magnetic field. If B0B\ne 0, then there exists an infinite number of gaps GnG_n with the length Gn\iy|G_n|\to\iy as n\iyn\to\iy, and we determine the asymptotics of the gaps at high energy for fixed BB. Moreover, we determine the asymptotics of the gaps GnG_n as B0B\to 0 for fixed nn.

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@article{arxiv.0804.0171,
  title  = {Magnetic Schr\"odinger operators on armchair nanotubes},
  author = {Evgeny Korotyaev and Andrey Badanin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0171},
  year   = {2008}
}