Homogenized description of defect modes in periodic structures with localized defects (Q2348479)

The authors study bifurcation phenomena for Schrödinger operators \[ H_{Q+\lambda V} \equiv -\partial_x^2 +Q(x) + \lambda V(x), \lambda > 0, \] where \(\lambda\) is a small parameter, \(Q\) is a continuous, \(1\)-periodic function on \(\mathbb{R}\), and \(V\) is spatially localized in the sense that \(\int_{\mathbb{R}} (1+|x|)|V(x)| \;dx < \infty\). The occurrence of negative eigenvalues \(E^\lambda\) for \( H_{Q+\lambda V} \psi^\lambda = E^\lambda \psi^\lambda\) located in the spectral gap of \(H_Q\), and estimates on the eigenpair \((E^\lambda \psi^\lambda)\) are established.