Trapped modes in thin and infinite ladder like domains. Part 1: Existence results

DOI10.3233/ASY-171422zbMATH Open1378.78029arXiv1709.06345OpenAlexW2625070545MaRDI QIDQ4589657FDOQ4589657

Elizaveta Vasilevskaya, S. Fliss, P. Joly, Bérangère Delourme

Publication date: 10 November 2017

Published in: Asymptotic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The present paper deals with the wave propagation in a particular two dimensional structure, obtained from a localized perturbation of a reference periodic medium. This reference medium is a ladder like domain, namely a thin periodic structure (the thickness being characterized by a small parameter $epsilon>0$) whose limit (as $epsilon$ tends to 0) is a periodic graph. The localized perturbation consists in changing the geometry of the reference medium by modifying the thickness of one rung of the ladder. Considering the scalar Helmholtz equation with Neumann boundary conditions in this domain, we wonder whether such a geometrical perturbation is able to produce localized eigenmodes. To address this question, we use a standard approach of asymptotic analysis that consists of three main steps. We first find the formal limit of the eigenvalue problem as the $epsilon$ tends to 0. In the present case, it corresponds to an eigenvalue problem for a second order differential operator defined along the periodic graph. Then, we proceed to an explicit calculation of the spectrum of the limit operator. Finally, we prove that the spectrum of the initial operator is close to the spectrum of the limit operator. In particular, we prove the existence of localized modes provided that the geometrical perturbation consists in diminishing the width of one rung of the periodic thin structure. Moreover, in that case, it is possible to create as many eigenvalues as one wants, provided that $epsilon$ is small enough. Numerical experiments illustrate the theoretical results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06345

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral theoryquantum graphsperiodic mediatrapped modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10)

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