Quantum motion on two planes connected at one point (Q1088131)

The paper deals with one of the recently studied applications of self- adjoint extensions in quantum mechanics. We discuss free motion of a spinless quantum particle on the manifold which consists of two planes connected at one point. The four-parameter family of admissible Hamiltonians is constructed by self-adjoint extensions of the free Hamiltonian restricted to the functions with supports separated from the singular point. The same method has been applied recently to many quantum mechanical problems involving contact interactions. For each Hamiltonian the transmission probability between the two planes is calculated. The results have been used by the authors in an other paper [due to appear in Czech. J. Phys. B] as a model for quantum point-contact spectroscopical experiments.