Existence of the transfer matrix for a class of nonlocal potentials in two dimensions

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC9ADAarXiv2207.10054MaRDI QIDQ6405572FDOQ6405572

Authors: Farhang Loran, Ali Mostafazadeh 

Publication date: 20 July 2022

Abstract: Evanescent waves are waves that decay or grow exponentially in regions of the space void of interaction. In potential scattering defined by the Schr"odinger equation, $(-abl{a}^2+v)psi=k^{2}psi$ for a local potential $v$, they arise in dimensions greater than one and are present regardless of the details of $v$. The approximation in which one ignores the contributions of the evanescent waves to the scattering process corresponds to replacing $v$ with a certain energy-dependent nonlocal potential $hat{mathscrV}_k$. We present a dynamical formulation of the stationary scattering for $hat{mathscrV}_k$ in two dimensions, where the scattering data are related to the dynamics of a quantum system having a non-self-adjoint, unbounded, and nonstationary Hamiltonian operator. The evolution operator for this system determines a two-dimensional analog of the transfer matrix of stationary scattering in one dimension which contains the information about the scattering properties of the potential. Under rather general conditions on $v$, we establish the strong convergence of the Dyson series expansion of the evolution operator and prove the existence of the transfer matrix for $hat{mathscrV}_k$ as a densely-defined operator acting in $mathbb{C}^{2}otimes{L}^2(-k,k)$.

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