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The spectral gap occupies a role of central importance in many open problems in physics. We present an approach for evaluating the spectral gap of a Hamiltonian from a simple ratio of two expectation values, both of which are evaluated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Gerard McCaul , Denys I. Bondar

We investigate spectral properties of the Neumann Laplacian $\mathscr{A}_\varepsilon$ on a periodic unbounded domain $\Omega_\varepsilon$ depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$. The domain $\Omega_\varepsilon$ is obtained by…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Andrii Khrabustovskyi , Evgen Khruslov

The spectral gap of local random quantum circuits is a fundamental property that determines how close the moments of the circuit's unitaries match those of a Haar random distribution. When studying spectral gaps, it is common to bound these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Andrew E. Deneris , Pablo Bermejo , Paolo Braccia , Lukasz Cincio , M. Cerezo

This paper deals with spectral inequalities for one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators with potentials bounded between two increasing functions (weights). The spectral inequality allows one to estimate the norm of a function with bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Eugenia Malinnikova , Jiuyi Zhu

Spectral components of one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with complex potential are investigated. An effective upper bound for the total number of eigenvalues and spectral singularities is established. For dissipative Schr\"odinger…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-06-28 S. A. Stepin

This article is devoted to the spectral analysis of the electro-magnetic Schr\"odinger operator on the Euclidean plane. In the semiclassical limit, we derive a pseudo-differential effective operator that allows us to describe the spectrum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Léo Morin , Nicolas Raymond , San Vu Ngoc

We give a new lower bound for the first gap $\lambda_2 - \lambda_1$ of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Schr{\"o}dinger operator on a bounded convex domain $\Omega$ in R$^n$ or S$^n$ and greatly sharpens the previous estimates. The new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun Ling

Equations arising in General Relativity are usually too complicated to be solved analytically and one has to rely on numerical methods to solve sets of coupled partial differential equations. Among the possible choices, this paper focuses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Philippe Grandclement , Jérôme Novak

The relative distance between eigenvalues of the compression of a not necessarily semibounded self-adjoint operator to a closed subspace and some of the eigenvalues of the original operator in a gap of the essential spectrum is considered.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Albrecht Seelmann

The spectral analysis of discretized one-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger operators is a very difficult problem which has been studied by numerous mathematicians. A natural problem at the interface of numerical analysis and operator theory is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Nathanial P. Brown

We consider semidiscrete finite differences schemes for the periodic Scr\"odinger equation in dimension one. We analyze whether the space-time integrability properties observed by Bourgain in the continuous case are satisfied at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Liviu I. Ignat

We propose a method for finding gaps in the spectrum of a differential operator. When applied to the one-dimensional Hamiltonian of the quartic oscillator, a simple algebraic algorithm is proposed that, step by step, separates with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-13 Hector Giacomini , Amaury Mouchet

New estimates for eigenvalues of non-self-adjoint multi-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger operators are obtained in terms of $L_{p}$-norms of the potentials. The results extend and improve those obtained previously. In particular, diverse…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Alexandra Enblom

Let $\Omega$ be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, and assume its boundary $\partial\Omega$ is smooth. Consider solving the eigenvalue problem $Lu=\lambda u$ for an elliptic partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Kendall Atkinson , Olaf Hansen

Estimates for eigenvalues of Schr\"{o}dinger operators on the half-line with complex-valued potentials are established. Schr\"{o}dinger operators with potentials belonging to weak Lebesque's classes are also considered. The results cover…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Alexandra Enblom

We consider discrete one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators with Sturmian potentials. For a full-measure set of rotation numbers including the Fibonacci case we prove absence of eigenvalues for all elements in the hull.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Damanik , Daniel Lenz

Let $(\lambda_-,\lambda_+)$ be a spectral gap of a periodic Schr\"odinger operator $A$ on the lattice ${\mathbb Z}^d$. Consider the operator $A(\alpha)=A-\alpha V$ where $V$ is a decaying positive potential on ${\mathbb Z}^d$. We study the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Siyu Gao

The discrete spectra of certain two-dimensional Schrodinger operators are numerically calculated. These operators have interesting spectral properties, i.e. their kernels are multi-dimensional and the deformations of potentials via the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-07-27 A. N. Adilkhanov , I. A. Taimanov

We prove a uniform spectral gap for complex transfer operators near the critical line associated to overlapping $C^2$ iterated function systems on the real line satisfying a Uniform Non-Integrability (UNI) condition. Our work extends that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Simon Baker , Tuomas Sahlsten

In this article, we introduce a general theoretical framework to analyze non-consistent approximations of the discrete eigenmodes of a self-adjoint operator. We focus in particular on the discrete eigenvalues laying in spectral gaps. We…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-03 Eric Cancès , Virginie Ehrlacher , Yvon Maday