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For a two-dimensional curved waveguide, it is well known that the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian is unstable. Any perturbation of the straight strip produces eigenvalues below the essential spectrum. In this paper, a magnetic field is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Diana Barseghyan , Swanhild Bernstein , Baruch Schneider , Martha Lina Zimmermann

The Dirichlet Laplacian between two parallel hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces of any dimension in the presence of a magnetic field is considered in the limit when the distance between the hypersurfaces tends to zero. We show that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 David Krejcirik , Nicolas Raymond , Matej Tusek

Recent progress in quantum field theory and quantum gravity relies on mixed boundary conditions involving both normal and tangential derivatives of the quantized field. In particular, the occurrence of tangential derivatives in the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito

Experimentally observed magnetic fields with nanoscale variations are theoretically modeled by a piece-wise constant function with jump discontinuity along a smooth curve, the magnetic edge. Assuming the edge is a closed curve with an axis…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Søren Fournais , Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar

We consider the motion of electrons confined to a two dimensional plane with an externally applied perpendicular inhomogeneous magnetic field, both with and without a Coulomb potential. We find that as long as the magnetic field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Investigation of the eigenvalue spectra of dynamo solutions, has been proved fundamental for the knowledge of dynamo physics. Earlier, curvature-folding relation on dynamos in Riemannian spaces has been investigated [PPL 2008]. Here,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We carry out 3D and 2D PIC-simulations of the expansion of a magnetized plasma that initially uniformly fills a half-space and contains a semi-cylindrical region of heated electrons elongated along the surface of the plasma boundary. This…

Let $S$ be a complete flat surface, such as the Euclidean plane. We obtain direct characterizations of the connected components of the space of all curves on $S$ which start and end at given points in given directions, and whose curvatures…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Nicolau C. Saldanha , Pedro Zühlke

The propagation of surface electromagnetic waves along a uniform magnetic field is studied in a quantum electron-hole semiconductor plasma. A new forward propagating mode, not reported before, is found by the effect of quantum tunneling,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. P. Misra

Investigating the geometric effects resulting from the detailed behaviors of the confining potential, we consider square and circular confinements to constrain a particle to a space curve. We find a torsion-induced geometric potential and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Yong-Long Wang , Meng-Yun Lai , Fan Wang , Hong-Shi Zong , Yan-Feng Chen

In a previous paper, we derived the quantum states of a Dirac particle in a circular, intense magnetic field in the limit of low momentum perpendicular to the field with the purpose of giving a quantum description of the trajectory of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Guillaume Voisin , Silvano Bonazzola , Fabrice Mottez

We compute the leading order corrections to the expected value of the squared field amplitude of a massless real scalar quantum field due to curvature in a localized region of spacetime. We use Riemann normal coordinates to define localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Ahmed Shalabi , Matheus H. Zambianco , T. Rick Perche

We use density-functional methods to study the effects of an external magnetic field on two-dimensional quantum dots with a rectangular hard-wall confining potential. The increasing magnetic field leads to spin polarization and formation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Räsänen , A. Harju , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

The quantum dynamics of an electron in a uniform magnetic field is studied for geometries corresponding to integrable cases. We obtain the uniform asymptotic approximation of the WKB energies and wavefunctions for the semi-infinite plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Spehner , R. Narevich , E. Akkermans

We study gravitational curvature effects in circular and radial geodesics in static, spherically symmetric space-times, using Fermi normal coordinates. We first set up these coordinates in the general case, and then use this to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Anshuman Dey , Abhisek Samanta , Tapobrata Sarkar

A new version of the invariant imbedding theory for the propagation of coupled waves in inhomogeneous media is applied to the mode conversion of high frequency electromagnetic waves into electrostatic modes in cold, magnetized and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee

A framework allowing for perturbative calculations to be carried out for quantum field theories with arbitrary smoothly curved boundaries is described. It is based on an expansion of the heat kernel derived earlier for arbitrary mixed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. M. McAvity , H. Osborn

The magnetic characteristics for superconducting samples of different geometries (plates and films of various widths) and orientation with respect to external field are compared. A similarity is established between the magnetization curves…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Maksimova , D. Yu. Vodolazov , I. L. Maksimov

The excitation of low frequency plasma waves in an expanding anisotropic cosmological model which contains a magnetic field frozen into the matter and pointing in the longitudinal direction is discussed. Using the exact equations governing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Demetrios Papadopoulos , Loukas Vlahos , F. Paul Esposito

We discuss upper and lower bounds on the electrical conductivity of finite temperature strongly coupled quantum field theories, holographically dual to probe brane models, within linear response. In a probe limit where disorder is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-07 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Andrew Lucas , Yuichiro Nakai