Finite pseudo orbit expansions for spectral quantities of quantum graphs

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/32/325204MaRDI QIDQ2907012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Band, Jon M. Harrison, C. H. Joyner

Publication date 5 September 2012

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4214

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selberg zeta functions and regularized determinants; applications to spectral theory, Dirichlet series, Eisenstein series, etc. (explicit formulas) (11M36) Boundary value problems on graphs and networks for ordinary differential equations (34B45) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

Abstract: We investigate spectral quantities of quantum graphs by expanding them as sums over pseudo orbits, sets of periodic orbits. Only a finite collection of pseudo orbits which are irreducible and where the total number of bonds is less than or equal to the number of bonds of the graph appear, analogous to a cut off at half the Heisenberg time. The calculation simplifies previous approaches to pseudo orbit expansions on graphs. We formulate coefficients of the characteristic polynomial and derive a secular equation in terms of the irreducible pseudo orbits. From the secular equation, whose roots provide the graph spectrum, the zeta function is derived using the argument principle. The spectral zeta function enables quantities, such as the spectral determinant and vacuum energy, to be obtained directly as finite expansions over the set of short irreducible pseudo orbits.

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