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This article is devoted to the semiclassical spectral analysis of the magnetic Laplacian in two dimensions. Assuming that the magnetic field is positive and has two symmetric radial wells, we establish an accurate tunnelling formula, that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Søren Fournais , Léo Morin , Nicolas Raymond

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

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

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…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël , Frédéric Hérau , Nicolas Raymond

This paper is devoted to semiclassical tunneling estimates induced on the circle by a double well electric potential in the case when a magnetic field is added. When the two electric wells are connected by two geodesics for the Agmon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-27 Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël , Frédéric Hérau , Nicolas Raymond

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…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Léo Morin

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Ivlev

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

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Khaled Abou Alfa

In this paper we derive formulae for the semiclassical tunneling in the presence of a constant magnetic field in 2 dimensions. The `wells' in the problem are identical discs with Neumann boundary conditions, so we study the magnetic Neumann…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Søren Fournais , Léo Morin

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

We present a magnetic double-well Hamiltonian where the tunneling between the two wells vanishes, as recently announced.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

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

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Zbigniew Ambrozinski

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 Dae-Yup Song

We report tunneling phenomena in double In$_{0.53}$Ga$_{0.47}$As quantum-well structures that are at odds with the conventional parallel-momentum-conserving picture of tunneling between two-dimensional systems. We found that the tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Lin , J. Nitta , ; A. K. M. Newaz , W. Song , E. E. Mendez

We argue that the tunneling between two 2D electron gases in a weak magnetic field is of resonance character, and involves a long lifetime excitonic state of an electron and hole {\it uniformly spread} over cyclotron orbits. We find that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov , A. V. Shytov

Motivated by our earlier argument that the apparent large cosmological constant from quantum fluctuations is actually an artifact of not using a full quantum mechanical superposition to determine the ground state in which the universe lives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon L. Kane , Malcolm J. Perry , Anna N. Zytkow
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