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Regularity properties of bulk and edge current densities at positive temperature

Mathematical Physics 2022-01-24 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We consider magnetic Schr\"odinger operators describing a quantum Hall effect setup both in the plane and in the half-plane. First, we study the structure and smoothness of the operator range of various powers of the half-plane resolvent. Second, we provide a complete analysis of the diamagnetic current density at positive temperature: we prove that bulk and edge current densities are smooth functions and we show that the edge current density converges to the bulk current density faster than any polynomial in the inverse distance from the boundary. Our proofs are based on gauge covariant magnetic perturbation theory and on a detailed analysis of the integral kernels of functions of magnetic Schr\"odinger operators on the half-plane.

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@article{arxiv.2201.08803,
  title  = {Regularity properties of bulk and edge current densities at positive temperature},
  author = {Massimo Moscolari and Benjamin B. Støttrup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08803},
  year   = {2022}
}

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29 pages