Perturbations of magnetic Schrödinger operators (Q5944692)

The authors consider magnetic Schrödinger operators of the form \(H(a,V)= (-i\nabla-a)^2+V\) in \(L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\), where \(a\) and \(V\) are the vector and the scalar potential respectively. In order to analyze the spectral properties of \(H(a,V)\) it is assumed that the magnetic field \(B=\text{rot} a\) admits a decomposition of the form \(B=B^0+\widetilde B\), where \(B^0\) points constantly into the direction of the \(z\)-axis. If \(a^0=(a^0_x (x,y),a^0_y (x,y),0)\) is such that rot \(a^0=B^0\), then the spectrum of \(H(a^0,0)\) is purely absolutely continuous and equals some half-axis \([\Sigma_0, \infty)\). The main result of the article states that outside the spectrum of \((-i\partial_x-a^0_x)^2 +(-i\partial_y- a^0_y)^2\) the operator \(H(a,V)\) has no singular continuous spectrum and its point spectrum is locally finite there, provided that several smallness conditions on \(\widetilde B\) and on \(V\) are satisfied.