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We study the quantum mechanical motion of a charged particle moving in a half plane (x>0) subject to a uniform constant magnetic field B directed along the z-axis and to an arbitrary impurity potential W_B, assumed to be weak in the sense…
We consider a Schr\"odinger operator $(h\mathbf D -\mathbf A)^2$ with a positive magnetic field $B=\curl\mathbf A$ in a domain $\Omega\subset\R^2$. The imposing of Neumann boundary conditions leads to spectrum below $h\inf B$. This is a…
We study edge states of a random Schroedinger operator for an electron submitted to a magnetic field in a finite macroscopic two dimensional system of linear dimensions equal to L. The y direction is L-periodic and in the x direction the…
We study two-dimensional magnetic Schr\"odinger operators with a magnetic field that is equal to b>0 for x > 0 and (-b) for x < 0. This magnetic Schr\"odinger operator exhibits a magnetic barrier at x=0. The unperturbed system is invariant…
Devices exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect can be modeled by one-electron Schroedinger operators describing the planar motion of an electron in a perpendicular, constant magnetic field, and under the influence of an electrostatic…
Schr\"odinger equation for an electron confined to a two-dimensional strip is considered in the presence of homogeneous orthogonal magnetic field. Since the system has edges, the eigenvalue problem is supplied by the boundary conditions…
We investigate the edge conductance of particles submitted to an Iwatsuka magnetic field, playing the role of a purely magnetic barrier. We also consider magnetic guides generated by generalized Iwatsuka potentials. In both cases we prove…
The role of edge states in phenomena like the quantum Hall effect is well known. In this paper we show how the choice of boundary conditions for a one-particle Schr\"odinger equation can give rise to states localized at the edge of the…
Devices exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect can be modeled by one-electron Schroedinger operators describing the planar motion of an electron in a perpendicular, constant magnetic field, and under the influence of an electrostatic…
We study the large-time asymptotics of the edge current for a family of time-fractional Schrodinger equations with a constant, transverse magnetic field on a half-plane $(x,y) \in \mathbb{R}_x^+ \times \mathbb{R}_y$. The TFSE is…
In this paper, we study the localization and propagation properties of the edge states associated to a class of magnetic laplacians in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We assume that the intensity of the magnetic field has a fast transition along a regular…
The ballistic conductance through a device consisting of quantum wires, to which two stubs are attached laterally, is calculated assuming parabolic confining potentials of frequencies $\omega_w$ for the wires and $\omega_s$ for the stubs.…
We are interested in the spectral properties of the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator $H_\varepsilon$ in a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with compact boundary and with magnetic field of intensity $\varepsilon^{-2}$. We impose Dirichlet…
The magnetic field opens a gap in the edge state spectrum of two-dimensional topological insulators thereby destroying protection of these states against backscattering. To relate properties of this gap to parameters of the system and to…
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…
We consider the Schr\"odinger operator with constant transverse magnetic field on a half-plane, endowed with Neumann boundary conditions. We study the low energy currents flowing along the boundary and we establish a Limiting Absorption…
We analyse the effects of Robin boundary conditions on quantum field theories of spin 0, 1 and 1/2. In particular, we show that these conditions always lead to the appearance of edge states that play a significant role in quantum Hall…
We consider an electron with an anomalous magnetic moment, g>2, confined to a plane and interacting with a nonhomogeneous magnetic field B, and investigate the corresponding Pauli Hamiltonian. We prove a lower bound on the number of bound…
We investigate the inverse problem of retrieving the magnetic potential of an Iwatsuka Hamiltonian by knowledge of the second component of the quantum velocity. We show that knowledge of the quantum currents carried by a suitable set of…
We use the bulk Hamiltonian for a three-dimensional topological insulator such as $\rm Bi_2 Se_3$ to study the states which appear on its various surfaces and along the edge between two surfaces. We use both analytical methods based on the…