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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…

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We study the low-lying eigenvalues of the semiclassical Robin Laplacian in a smooth planar domain symmetric with respect to an axis. In the case when the curvature of the boundary of the domain attains its maximum at exactly two points away…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar , Nicolas Raymond

We consider the eigenvalues of the magnetic Laplacian on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb R^2$ with uniform magnetic field $\beta>0$ and magnetic Neumann boundary conditions. We find upper and lower bounds for the ground state energy…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Bruno Colbois , Corentin Léna , Luigi Provenzano , Alessandro Savo

A simple example of especially constructed potential barrier enables to show analytically (not numerically) the existence of tunneling effect for a Sommerfeld particle.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Vlasov

The quantum tunneling of the magnetization vector are studied theoretically in single-domain ferromagnetic nanoparticles placed in an external magnetic field at an arbitrarily directed angle in the $ZX$ plane. We consider the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rong Lu , Jia-Lin Zhu , Zhi-Rong Liu , Lee Chang , Bing-Lin Gu

We study the Schwinger effect, in which the external field having a spatiotemporal profile creates electron-positron pairs via multidimensional quantum tunneling. Our treatment is based on the trace formula for the QED effective action,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Cesim K. Dumlu

We derive a semiclassical formula for the tunneling current of electrons trapped in a potential well which can tunnel into and across a wide quantum well. The calculations idealize an experimental situation where a strong magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. B. Bogomolny , D. C. Rouben

A new quantum approach is presented that can account for the description of small ferromagnetic particles magnetization tunneling. An estimate of the saturation value of an external applied magnetic field along the easy axis is obtained. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Galetti , B. M. Pimentel , C. L. Lima , E. C. Silva

The modern semiclassical theory of a Bloch electron in a magnetic field encompasses the orbital magnetization and geometric phase. Beyond this semiclassical theory lies the quantum description of field-induced tunneling between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 A. Alexandradinata , Leonid Glazman

This article deals with the spectral analysis of the semiclassical Neumann magnetic Laplacian on a smooth bounded domain in dimension three. When the magnetic field is constant and in the semiclassical limit, we establish a four-term…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Frédéric Hérau , Nicolas Raymond

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Markus Klein , Elke Rosenberger

We consider an infinite three-dimensional waveguide that far from the coordinate origin coincides with a cylinder. The waveguide has two narrows of diameter $\varepsilon$. The narrows play the role of effective potential barriers for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-06 L. M. Baskin , B. A. Plamenevskii , O. V. Sarafanov

We consider the zigzag half-nanotubes (tight-binding approximation) in a uniform magnetic field which is described by the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator with a periodic potential plus a finitely supported perturbation. We describe all…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-24 Alexei Iantchenko , Evgeny Korotyaev

We present a theoretical study of momentum-resolved tunneling between parallel two-dimensional conductors whose charge carriers have a (pseudo-)spin-1/2 degree of freedom that is strongly coupled to their linear orbital momentum. Specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 L. Pratley , U. Zuelicke

This article is devoted the semiclassical spectral analysis of the Neumann magnetic Laplacian on a smooth bounded domain in three dimensions. Under a generic assumption on the variable magnetic field (involving a localization of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Khaled Abou Alfa , Maha Aafarani , Frédéric Hérau , Nicolas Raymond

We study the tunneling through delta and double delta potentials in fractional quantum mechanics. After solving the fractional Schr\"odinger equation for these potentials, we calculate the corresponding reflection and transmission…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira , Jayme Vaz

A semiclassical theory is developed and compared to experiments on the tunneling resonance spectrum for a quantum well in magnetic field tilted with respect to the tunneling direction. As the tilt angle is increased from zero the classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 E. E. Narimanov , A. Douglas Stone

We consider a particle bound to a two-dimensional plane and a double well potential, subject to a perpendicular uniform magnetic field . The energy difference between the lowest two eigenvalues--the eigenvalue splitting--is related to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

We provide a semiclassical theory of tunneling decay in a magnetic field and a three-dimensional potential of a general form. Because of broken time-reversal symmetry, the standard WKB technique has to be modified. The decay rate is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Sharpee , M. I. Dykman , P. M. Platzman

Inspired by a recent paper$^*$ by C. Fefferman, J. Shapiro and M. Weinstein, we investigate quantum tunneling for a Hamiltonian with a symmetric double well and a uniform magnetic field. In the simultaneous limit of strong magnetic field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 B. Helffer , A. Kachmar