Scattering, homogenization, and interface effects for oscillatory potentials with strong singularities

DOI10.1137/100811672MaRDI QIDQ2905613zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Duchêne, Michael I. Weinstein

Publication date 28 August 2012

Published in Multiscale Modeling \& Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2694

zbMATH Keywords

homogenizationtransmission coefficientinterface correctorSchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory, inverse scattering involving ordinary differential operators (34L25) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05) Multiple scale methods for ordinary differential equations (34E13)

Abstract: We study one-dimensional scattering for a decaying potential with rapid periodic oscillations and strong localized singularities. In particular, we consider the Schr"odinger equation [ H_epsilon psi := (-partial_x^2 + V_0(x) + q(x,x/epsilon)) psi = k^2 psi, ] for $kinRR$ and $epsilon<<1$. Here, $q(.,y+1)=q(.,y)$, has mean zero and $|V_0(x)+q(x,.)|$ goes to zero as $|x|$ goes to infinity. The distorted plane waves of $H_{e}psilon$ are solutions of the form: $e^{pmikx}+u_p^{s}m(x;k)$, $u_p^{s}m$ outgoing as $|x|$ goes to infinity. We derive their $epsilon$ small asymptotic behavior, from which the asymptotic behavior of scattering quantities such as the transmission coefficient, $t^{e}psilon(k)$, follow. Let $t_0^{hom}(k)$ denote the homogenized transmission coefficient associated with the average potential $V_0$. If the potential is smooth, then classical homogenization theory gives asymptotic expansions of, for example, distorted plane waves, and transmission and reflection coefficients. Singularities of $V_0$ or discontinuities of $q_{e}psilon$, that our theory admits, are "interfaces" across which a solution must satisfy interface conditions (continuity or jump conditions). To satisfy these conditions it is necessary to introduce interface correctors, which are highly oscillatory in $epsilon$. A consequence of our main results is that $t^{e}psilon(k)-t_0^{hom}(k)$, the error in the homogenized transmission coefficient is (i) $O(epsilo{n}^2)$ if $q_{e}psilon$ is continuous and (ii) $O(epsilon)$ if $q_{e}psilon$ has discontinuities. Moreover, in the discontinuous case the correctors are highly oscillatory in $epsilon$, so that a first order corrector is not well-defined. The analysis is based on a (pre-conditioned) Lippman-Schwinger equation, introduced in [SIAM J. Mult. Mod. Sim. (3), 3 (2005), pp. 477--521].

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