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We consider tunneling between 2 symmetric potential wells for a 2-d Schrodinger operator, in the case of eigenvalues associated with quasi-modes supported on KAM or Birkhoff tori.
We establish a tunneling formula for a Schr\"odinger operator with symmetric double-well potential and homogeneous magnetic field, in dimension two. Each well is assumed to be radially symmetric and compactly supported. We obtain an…
An asymmetric double-well potential is considered, assuming that the minima of the wells are quadratic with a frequency $\omega$ and the difference of the minima is close to a multiple of $\hbar \omega$. A WKB wave function is constructed…
In the semiclassical limit h to 0, we analyze a class of self-adjoint Schr\"odinger operators H_h = h^2 L + h W + V id_E acting on sections of a vector bundle E over an oriented Riemannian manifold M where L is a Laplace type operator, W is…
We consider the non-selfadjoint, semiclassical Schr\"odinger operator $\mathscr{L}(h) := -h^2\partial_x^2+e^{i\alpha}V$, where $\alpha \in (-\pi,\pi)$ and $V: \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}_+$ is even and vanishes at exactly two (symmetric)…
In this report we present preliminary results about the tunneling problem for a magnetic Schr\"odinger operator. As a motivation we consider the 3-D time-dependent Schr\"odinger operator $H(t)=-h^2\Delta+V+E(t)\cdot x$ where $V$ is a radial…
A simple approximate solution for the quantum-mechanical quartic oscillator $V= m^2 x^2+g x^4$ in the double-well regime $m^2<0$ at arbitrary $g \geq 0$ is presented. It is based on a combining of perturbation theory near true minima of the…
We are interested in decay estimates of the ground state (or the low energy eigenstates), outside the potential wells, for a semi-classical Magnetic Schr\"odinger operator with smooth coefficients $P_A(x,hD_x)=(hD_x-\mu A(x))^2+V(x)$ on…
We investigate quantum tunneling in smooth symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials. Exact solutions for the ground and first excited states are used to study the dynamics. We introduce Wigner's quasi-probability distribution…
Traditionally quantum tunneling in a static SQUID is studied on the basis of a classical trajectory in imaginary time under a two-dimensional potential barrier. The trajectory connects a potential well and an outer region crossing their…
We investigate the simple resonances of a 2 by 2 matrix of n-dimensional semiclassical Shr\"odinger operators that interact through a first order differential operator. We assume that one of the two (analytic) potentials admits a well with…
For a model 1d asymmetric double-well potential we calculated so-called survival probability (i.e. the probability for a particle initially localised in one well to remain there). We use a semiclassical (WKB) solution of Schroedinger…
We compute tunneling in a quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions for a field potential $U(\Phi)$ of the asymmetric double well type. The system is localized initially in the ``false vacuum''. We consider the case of a {\em compact space}…
The two-dimensional magnetic Laplacian is considered. We calculate the leading term of the splitting between the first two eigenvalues of the operator in the semiclassical limit under the assumption that the magnetic field does not vanish…
For an asymmetric double-well potential system, it is shown that, if the potential is quadratic until it reaches several times of the zero-point energies from the bottoms in each well, the energy eigenvalues of the low lying excited states…
We continue our study of a magnetic Schr\"odinger operator on a two-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold in the case when the minimal value of the module of the magnetic field is strictly positive. We analyze the case when the magnetic…
Quantum tunneling between two potential wells in a magnetic field can be strongly increased when the potential barrier varies in the direction perpendicular to the line connecting the two wells and remains constant along this line. An…
The tunneling effect is the most popular phenomenon of quantum physics and is present in modern physical theories. Still, the most important features of this effect are already present in toy models - low dimensional quantum mechanics with…
We present new results on quantum tunneling between deep potential wells, in the presence of a strong constant magnetic field. We construct a family of double well potentials containing examples for which the low-energy eigenvalue splitting…
In this paper, we consider the semiclassical 2D magnetic Schr{\"o}dinger operator in the case where the magnetic field vanishes along a smooth closed curve. Assuming that this curve has an axis of symmetry, we prove that semi-classical…