Edge states induced by Iwatsuka Hamiltonians with positive magnetic fields

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2014.08.056MaRDI QIDQ458349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter D. Hislop, Eric Soccorsi

Publication date 7 October 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5968

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fieldasymptotic velocitymagnetic barriermagnetic edge statesSchrödinger operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We study purely magnetic Schr"odinger operators in two-dimensions $(x,y)$ with magnetic fields $b(x)$ that depend only on the $x$-coordinate. The magnetic field $b(x)$ is assumed to be bounded, there are constants $0<b_{-}<b_{+}<infty$ so that $b_{-}leqb(x)leq{b}_{+}$, and outside of a strip of small width $-epsilon<x<epsilon$, where $0<epsilon<b_{-}^{-1/2}$, we have $b(x)=b_{p}mx$ for $pmx>epsilon$. The case of a jump in the magnetic field at $x=0$ corresponding to $epsilon=0$ is also studied. We prove that the magnetic field creates an effective barrier near $x=0$ that causes edge currents to flow along it consistent with the classical interpretation. We prove lower bounds on edge currents carried by states with energy localized inside the energy bands of the Hamiltonian. We prove that these edge current-carrying states are well-localized in $x$ to a region of size $b_{-}^{-1/2}$, also consistent with the classical interpretation. We demonstrate that the edge currents are stable with respect to various magnetic and electric perturbations. For a family of perturbations compactly supported in the $y$-direction, we prove that the time asymptotic current exists and satisfies the same lower bound.

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