Local spectral asymptotics for metric perturbations of the Landau Hamiltonian (Q500394)

On \(L^2({\mathbb R}^2)\), consider the self-adjoint Landau Hamiltonian \[ H_0 := (-i\nabla - A_0)^2, \] where \(A := \left(A_{0,1},A_{0,2}\right)=\frac{b}{2}\left(-x_2, x_1\right)\) is the magnetic potential and \(b>0\) is the generated constant magnetic field. It is well known that the spectrum \(\sigma(H_0)\) of \(H_0\) consists of infinitely degenerate eigenvalues \(\Lambda_q : = b(2q+1)\), \(q \in {\mathbb Z}_+ : = \{0,1,2,\ldots\}\), called \textit{Landau levels}. The authors consider metric perturbations of \(H_0\) of the form \[ H_\pm := \sum\limits_{j,k=1,2} \left(-i\frac{\partial}{\partial x_j}-A_{0,j}\right)(\delta_{jk}\pm m_{jk}) \left(-i\frac{\partial}{\partial x_k}-A_{0,k}\right), \] where \[ m(x):=\left\{ m_{jk}(x)\right\}_{j,k=1;2},\quad x \in {\mathbb R}^2, \] is a Hermitian \(2\times 2\) matrix such that \(0\leq m(x)\) for all \(x \in {\mathbb R}^2\), \(m_{jk} \in C^\infty({\mathbb R}^2)\), and the entries \(m_{jk}\) together with all their derivatives are bounded on \({\mathbb R}^2\). Fix \(q \in {\mathbb Z}_+\). Let \(\lambda^-_{k,q}\) be the eigenvalues of \(H_-\) lying on the interval \((\Lambda_{q-1},\Lambda_q)\). Similarly, let \(\lambda^+_{k,q}\) be the eigenvalues of \(H_+\) lying on the interval \((\Lambda_q,\Lambda_{q+1})\). Then, the authors investigate the rate of convergence of \(\lambda^\pm_{k,q}-\Lambda_q\) as \(k \to\infty\), with \(q \in {\mathbb Z}_+\) fixed, for perturbations \(m\) of compact support, of exponential decay, or of power-like decay at infinity. The proofs are based on the reduction to the study of operators of Berezin-Toeplitz type.