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The fate of Landau levels under $\delta$-interactions

Spectral Theory 2021-10-05 v2 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

We consider the self-adjoint Landau Hamiltonian H0H_0 in L2(R2)L^2(\mathbb{R}^2) whose spectrum consists of infinitely degenerate eigenvalues Λq\Lambda_q, qZ+q \in \mathbb{Z}_+, and the perturbed operator Hυ=H0+υδΓH_\upsilon = H_0 + \upsilon\delta_\Gamma, where ΓR2\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^2 is a regular Jordan C1,1C^{1,1}-curve, and υLp(Γ;R)\upsilon \in L^p(\Gamma;\mathbb{R}), p>1p>1, has a constant sign. We investigate Ker(HυΛq){\rm Ker}(H_\upsilon -\Lambda_q), qZ+q \in \mathbb{Z}_+, and show that generically 0dimKer(HυΛq)dimKer(Tq(υδΓ))<,0 \leq {\rm dim \, Ker}(H_\upsilon -\Lambda_q) - {\rm dim \, Ker}(T_q(\upsilon \delta_\Gamma)) < \infty, where Tq(υδΓ)=pq(υδΓ)pqT_q(\upsilon \delta_\Gamma) = p_q (\upsilon \delta_\Gamma)p_q, is an operator of Berezin-Toeplitz type, acting in pqL2(R2)p_q L^2(\mathbb{R}^2), and pqp_q is the orthogonal projection on Ker(H0Λq){\rm Ker}\,(H_0 -\Lambda_q). If υ0\upsilon \neq 0 and q=0q = 0, we prove that Ker(T0(υδΓ))={0}{\rm Ker}\,(T_0(\upsilon \delta_\Gamma)) = \{0\}. If q1q \geq 1, and Γ=Cr\Gamma = \mathcal{C}_r is a circle of radius rr, we show that dimKer(Tq(δCr))q{\rm dim \, Ker} (T_q(\delta_{\mathcal{C}_r})) \leq q, and the set of r(0,)r \in (0,\infty) for which dimKer(Tq(δCr))1{\rm dim \, Ker}(T_q(\delta_{\mathcal{C}_r})) \geq 1, is infinite and discrete.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.07233,
  title  = {The fate of Landau levels under $\delta$-interactions},
  author = {Jussi Behrndt and Markus Holzmann and Vladimir Lotoreichik and Georgi Raikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07233},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

28 pages; to appear in Journal of Spectral Theory