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The superconductivity in very thin rings is suppressed by quantum phase slips. As a result the amplitude of the persistent current oscillations with flux becomes exponentially small, and their shape changes from sawtooth to a sinusoidal…
We consider 2-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with the non-degenerating magnetic field and we discuss spectral asymptotics with the remainder estimate $o(\mu^{-1}h^{-1})$ or better. We also consider 3-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator…
We consider the Schrodinger operator a given domain. Our goal is to study some optimization problems where an optimal (non-negative) potential V has to be determined in some suitable admissible classes and for some suitable optimization…
First-principles calculations were performed to investigate the electronic structure of two-dimensional (2-D) Ge, Sn, and Pb without and with the presence of an external electric field in combination with spin-orbit coupling. Tight-binding…
We study the electronic states of narrow graphene ribbons (``nanoribbons'') with zigzag and armchair edges. The finite width of these systems breaks the spectrum into an infinite set of bands, which we demonstrate can be quantitatively…
We consider discrete Schr\"odinger operators with pattern Sturmian potentials. This class of potentials strictly contains the class of Sturmian potentials, for which the spectral properties of the associated Schr\"odinger operators are well…
We establish the existence of a nontrivial weak solution to strongly indefinite asymptotically linear and superlinear Schr\"odinger equations. The novelty is to identify the essential relation between the spectrum of the operator and the…
We consider continuum random Schr\"odinger operators of the type $H_{\omega} = -\Delta + V_0 + V_{\omega}$ with a deterministic background potential $V_0$. We establish criteria for the absence of continuous and absolutely continuous…
Let $\alpha\in(0,1)$ be an irrational, and $[0;a_1,a_2,...]$ the continued fraction expansion of $\alpha$. Let $H_{\alpha,V}$ be the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with Sturm potential of frequency $\alpha$. Suppose the potential…
We consider a Schroedinger operator on the axis with a bipartite potential consisting of two compactly supported complex-valued functions, whose supports are separated by a large distance. We show that this operator possesses a sequence of…
In this paper, we study spectral properties of a family of quasi-periodic Schrodinger operators on the real line in the adiabatic limit. We assume that the adiabatic iso-energetic curves are extended along the momentum direction. In the…
We show that the spectrum of a Schr\"odinger operator on $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 3$, with a periodic smooth Riemannian metric, whose conformal multiple has a product structure with one Euclidean direction, and with a periodic electric…
The energy spectrum of a nonrelativistic particle on a noncommutative sphere in the presence of a magnetic monopole field is calculated. The system is treated in the field theory language, in which the one-particle sector of a charged…
We investigate the behavior of the Green functions of Schroedinger operators near the diagonal. The only non-trivial cases, where the on-diagonal singularities are non-zero and do not depend on the spectral parameter, are two and three…
We consider a magnetic Schr\"odinger operator $H^h$, depending on the semiclassical parameter $h>0$, on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold. We assume that there is no electric field. We suppose that the minimal value $b_0$ of the…
We discuss the electronic properties of graphene and graphene nanoribbons including "pseudo-Rashba" spin-orbit coupling. After summarizing the bulk properties, we first analyze the scattering behavior close to an infinite mass and zigzag…
We investigate the spectral properties of Schr\"odinger operators in l^2(Z) with limit-periodic potentials. The perspective we take was recently proposed by Avila and is based on regarding such potentials as generated by continuous sampling…
We consider a single band approximation to the random Schroedinger operator in an external magnetic field. The spectrum of such an operator has been characterized in the case where delta impurities are located on the sites of a lattice. In…
We consider the bi-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with unidirectionally constant magnetic field, $H_0$, sometimes known as the "Iwatsuka Hamiltonian". This operator is analytically fibered, with band functions converging to finite…
The band structures of strained graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are examined by a tight binding Hamiltonian that is directly related to the type and strength of strains. Compared to the two-dimensional graphene whose band gap remains close to…