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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 single harmonic oscillator and double-well potentials are important systems in quantum mechanics. The single harmonic oscillator is {\it the} paradigm in physics, and is taught in nearly all beginner undergraduate classes, while the…
We introduce the periodic Airy-Schr\"odinger operator and we study its band spectrum. This is an example of an explicitly solvable model with a periodic potential which is not differentiable at its minima and maxima. We define a…
Fredholm integral operators that commute with the Hamiltonians of certain quantum mechanical problems with quartic potentials are introduced. The operators are expressed in terms of an Airy function, and their eigenvalues fall off…
We consider the Schr\"odinger operator on the real line with an even quartic potential. Our main result is a product formula of the type $\psi_k(x)\psi_k(y) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \psi_k(z)\mathcal{K}(x,y,z)dz$ for its eigenfunctions $\psi_k$.…
In this survey we discuss spectral and quantum dynamical properties of discrete one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators whose potentials are obtained by real-valued sampling along the orbits of an ergodic invertible transformation. After an…
We study the Schr\"odinger operator with a potential given by the sum of the potentials for harmonic oscillator and imaginary cubic oscillator and we focus on its pseudospectral properties. A summary of known results about the operator and…
We show that formal Schr\"odinger operators with singular potentials from the space W^{-1}_{2,unif}(R) can be naturally defined to give selfadjoint and bounded below operators, which depend continuously in the uniform resolvent sense on the…
The formalism of exact 1D quantization is reviewed in detail and applied to the spectral study of three concrete Schr\"odinger Hamiltonians $[-\d^2/\d q^2 + V(q)]^\pm$ on the half-line $\{q>0\}$, with a Dirichlet (-) or Neumann (+)…
We derive WKB approximations for a class of Airy and parabolic cylinder functions in the complex plane, including quantitative error bounds. We prove that all zeros of the Airy function lie on a ray in the complex plane, and that the…
A class of Schr\"odinger-type second-order linear differential equations with a large parameter $u$ is considered. Analytic solutions of this type of equations can be described via (divergent) formal series in descending powers of $u$.…
Quantum scattering by a one-dimensional odd potential proportional to the square of the distance to the origin is considered. The Schr\"odinger equation is solved exactly and explicit algebraic expressions of the wavefunction are given. A…
The aim of this work is to study the Airy and Schr\"odinger operators on looping-edge graphs, a class of metric graphs consisting of a circle and a finite number $N$ of infinite half-lines attached to a common vertex. For the Airy operator,…
This paper is concerned with the efficient numerical computation of solutions to the 1D stationary Schr\"odinger equation in the semiclassical limit in the highly oscillatory regime. A previous approach to this problem based on explicitly…
This paper presents a thorough analysis of 1-dimensional Schroedinger operators whose potential is a linear combination of the Coulomb term 1/r and the centrifugal term 1/r^2. We allow both coupling constants to be complex. Using natural…
An explicit solution of the spectral problem of the non-local Schr\"odinger operator obtained as the sum of the square root of the Laplacian and a quartic potential in one dimension is presented. The eigenvalues are obtained as zeroes of…
We examine two kinds of spectral theoretic situations: First, we recall the case of self-adjoint half-line Schr\"odinger operators on $[a,\infty)$, $a\in\mathbb{R}$, with a regular finite end point $a$ and the case of Schr\"odinger…
This paper is concerned with the efficient numerical treatment of 1D stationary Schr\"odinger equations in the semi-classical limit when including a turning point of first order. For the considered scattering problems we show that the wave…
We consider a Schr\"odinger operator with complex-valued potentials on the line. The operator has essential spectrum on the half-line plus eigenvalues (counted with algebraic multiplicity) in the complex plane without the positive…
In this note, it is shown that the stochastic Airy operator, which is the "Schr\"odinger operator" on the half-line whose potential term consists of Gaussian white noise plus a linear term tending to $+\infty$, can naturally be defined as a…