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Magnetic Schr\"odinger operators and landscape functions

Analysis of PDEs 2022-10-07 v1 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We study localization properties of low-lying eigenfunctions of magnetic Schr\"odinger operators 12(iA(x))2ϕ+V(x)ϕ=λϕ,\frac{1}{2} \left(- i\nabla - A(x)\right)^2 \phi + V(x) \phi = \lambda \phi, where V:ΩR0V:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0} is a given potential and A:ΩRdA:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d induces a magnetic field. We extend the Filoche-Mayboroda inequality and prove a refined inequality in the magnetic setting which can predict the points where low-energy eigenfunctions are localized. This result is new even in the case of vanishing magnetic field. Numerical examples illustrate the results.

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@article{arxiv.2210.02646,
  title  = {Magnetic Schr\"odinger operators and landscape functions},
  author = {Jeremy G. Hoskins and Hadrian Quan and Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.02646},
  year   = {2022}
}
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