A problem of Berry and knotted zeros in the eigenfunctions of the harmonic oscillator

DOI10.4171/JEMS/767zbMATH Open1421.35011arXiv1503.05101MaRDI QIDQ1708552FDOQ1708552

Authors: Peng Zhang 

Publication date: 23 March 2018

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that, given any finite link L in R^3, there is a high energy complex-valued eigenfunction of the harmonic oscillator such that its nodal set contains a union of connected components diffeomorphic to L. This solves a problem of Berry on the existence of knotted zeros in bound states of a quantum system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05101

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic oscillatornodal setsfinite links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40)

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