Quantum tunneling on graphs

DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1453-8MaRDI QIDQ411377zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong Lin, Gabor Lippner, Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 4 April 2012

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2660

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) PDEs on graphs and networks (ramified or polygonal spaces) (35R02) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

Abstract: We explore the tunneling behavior of a quantum particle on a finite graph, in the presence of an asymptotically large potential. Surprisingly the behavior is governed by the local symmetry of the graph around the wells.

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