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Analytical solutions to the wave equation in spheroidal coordinates in the short wavelength limit are considered. The asymptotic solutions for the radial function are significantly simplified, allowing scalar spheroidal wave functions to be…

In weakly inhomogeneous media, Maxwell equations assume a Dirac-like form that is particularly apt for the study of paraxial propagation. Using this form, and via the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation technique of the Dirac equation, we study…

This article investigates the wave equation for the Schr\"{o}dinger operator on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, denoted as $\mathcal{H}_0:=-\Delta+V$, where $\Delta$ is the standard Laplacian and $V$ is a complex-valued multiplication operator. We prove…

Recently a paper on the construction of consistent Wigner functions for cylindrical phase spaces S^1 x R, i.e. for the canonical pair angle and angular momentum, was presented (arXiv:1601.02520), main properties of those functions derived,…

The raising operator relating adjacent bound states for the general, non-symmetric Rosen-Morse potential is constructed explicitly. It is demonstrated that, in constrast to the symmetric (modified P\"oschl-Teller) potential, the operator is…

In the first part of the paper we show Weyl type spectral asymptotic formulas for pseudodifferential operators $P_a$ of order $2a$, with type and factorization index $a\in R_+$, restricted to compact sets with boundary; this includes…

There is much discussion in the mathematical physics literature as well as in quantum mechanics textbooks on spherically symmetric potentials. Nevertheless, there is no consensus about the behavior of the radial function at the origin,…

In this paper, the axion contribution to the electromagnetic wave propagation is studied. First we show how the axion electrodynamics model can be embedded into a premetric formalism of Maxwell electrodynamics. In this formalism, the axion…

In this paper we study the asymptotic expansion of the spectral shift function for the slowly varying perturbations of periodic Schr\"odinger operators. We give a weak and pointwise asymptotics expansions in powers of $h$ of the derivative…

Parasupersymmetric quantum mechanics is exploited to introduce a topological invariant associated with a pair of parameter dependent Fredholm (respectively elliptic differential) operators satisfying two compatibility conditions. An…

Building on work on Miura's transformation by Kappeler, Perry, Shubin, and Topalov, we develop a detailed spectral theoretic treatment of Schr\"odinger operators with matrix-valued potentials, with special emphasis on distributional…

We provide a simple sufficient condition in an abstract framework to deduce the existence and completeness of wave operators (resp. modified wave operators) on Sobolev spaces from the existence and completeness of the usual wave operators…

Schr\"odinger operator on half-line with complex potential and the corresponding evolution are studied within perturbation theoretic approach. The total number of eigenvalues and spectral singularities is effectively evaluated. Wave…

Projection operators arise naturally as one-particle density operators associated to Slater determinants in fields such as quantum mechanics and the study of determinantal processes. In the context of the semiclassical approximation of…

In this paper, we develop a theoretical analysis to efficiently handle superpositions of waves with concentrated wavevector and frequency spectra, allowing an easy analytical description of fields with interesting transverse profiles.…

We consider parabolic Schr\"odinger type equations associated to fractional powers of uniformly elliptic 2m-order operators with constant coefficients. Potentials and initial data are considered in suitable Morrey spaces. By means of…

We consider second order differential operators with coefficients which are Gaussian random fields. When the covariance becomes singular at short distances then the propagators of the Schr\"odinger equation as well as of the wave equation…

In this thesis, we construct an approximate series solution of the Wigner equation in terms of Airy functions, which are semiclassically concentrated on certain Lagrangian curves in two-dimensional phase space. These curves are defined by…

The discovery of Berry and Balazs in 1979 that the free-particle Schr\"odinger equation allows a non-dispersive and accelerating Airy-packet solution has taken the folklore of quantum mechanics by surprise. Over the years, this intriguing…

We consider fractional Schr\"odinger operators $H=(-\Delta)^\alpha+V(x)$ in $n$ dimensions with real-valued potential $V$ when $n>2\alpha$, $\alpha>1$. We show that the wave operators extend to bounded operators on $L^p(\mathbb R^n)$ for…