Scattering by a toroidal coil

Abstract: In this paper we consider the Schr"odinger operator in

{m a t h b b R}^{3}

with a long-range magnetic potential associated to a magnetic field supported inside a torus

m a t h b b T

. Using the scheme of smooth perturbations we construct stationary modified wave operators and the corresponding scattering matrix

S (l a m b d a)

. We prove that the essential spectrum of

S (l a m b d a)

is an interval of the unit circle depending only on the magnetic flux

p h i

across the section of

m a t h b b T

. Additionally we show that, in contrast to the Aharonov-Bohm potential in

{m a t h b b R}^{2}

, the total scattering cross-section is always finite. We also conjecture that the case treated here is a typical example in dimension 3.

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