Localization and landscape functions on quantum graphs

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7908MaRDI QIDQ5217881zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Evans M. II Harrell, Anna Maltsev

Publication date 26 February 2020

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01186

zbMATH Keywords

Agmon metricAnderson localizationlandscape functionlocalizationquantum graphtunneling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansions, completeness of eigenfunctions of ordinary differential operators (34L10) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Tunneling in quantum theory (81U26)

Abstract: We discuss explicit landscape functions for quantum graphs. By a "landscape function" $Upsilon(x)$ we mean a function that controls the localization properties of normalized eigenfunctions $psi(x)$ through a pointwise inequality of the form ${\displaystyle }$ |psi(x)| le Upsilon(x). ${\displaystyle }$ The ideal $Upsilon$ is a function that a) responds to the potential energy $V(x)$ and to the structure of the graph in some formulaic way; b) is small in examples where eigenfunctions are suppressed by the tunneling effect, and c) relatively large in regions where eigenfunctions may - or may not - be concentrated, as observed in specific examples. It turns out that the connectedness of a graph can present a barrier to the existence of universal landscape functions in the high-energy r'egime, as we show with simple examples. We therefore apply different methods in different r'egimes determined by the values of the potential energy $V(x)$ and the eigenvalue parameter $E$.

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