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We show that the first structures that form in the universe should spontaneously generate magnetic fields. No primordial seed field is required for this "first dynamo". Although the first dynamo starts with kinetic plasma instabilities, we…
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We review the properties of BPS, or supersymmetric, magnetic monopoles, with an emphasis on their low-energy dynamics and their classical and quantum bound states. After an overview of magnetic monopoles, we discuss the BPS limit and its…
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We present lower bounds on tunneling rates in magnetic double well systems for generic values of the coupling constant. This result was recently announced in \cite{FSW24} and complements our recent counter-example construction which…
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We consider the Neumann Laplacian with constant magnetic field on a regular domain. Let $B$ be the strength of the magnetic field, and let $\lambda_1(B)$ be the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Neumann Laplacian on the domain. It is proved…
The semiclassical magnetic Neumann Schr\"odinger operator on a smooth, bounded, and simply connected domain $\Omega$ of the Euclidean plane is considered. When $\Omega$ has a symmetry axis, the semiclassical splitting of the first two…
Using the generalization of the multidimensional WKB method to magnetic Laplacians corresponding to monopoles, which we proposed earlier, we obtain explicit formulas for quasi-classical approximations of eigenfunctions for the Dirac…
We consider a magnetic Laplacian with periodic magnetic potentials on periodic discrete graphs. Its spectrum consists of a finite number of bands, where degenerate bands are eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity. We obtain a specific…
It is proved that the minimal Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian in an annulus is a monotonically decreasing function of the displacement of the center of the smaller disc. The maximal value of the minimal eigenvalue is attained when the…
We obtain new lower bounds for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the scalar sub-Laplacian for 3-Sasaki metrics, improving Lichnerowicz-Obata type estimates by Ivanov et al. The limiting eigenspace is fully decribed in terms of the…
This paper is devoted to the spectral analysis of the Neumann realization of the 2D magnetic Laplacian with semiclassical parameter h > 0 in the case when the magnetic field vanishes along a smooth curve which crosses itself inside a…
The aim of the paper is to derive spectral estimates on the eigenvalue moments of the magnetic Dirichlet Laplacian defined on the two-dimensional disk with a radially symmetric magnetic field.
We propose a systematic construction of signed harmonic functions for discrete Laplacian operators with Dirichlet conditions in the quarter plane. In particular, we prove that the set of harmonic functions is an algebra generated by a…
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