Spectral asymptotics for two-dimensional Dirac operators in thin waveguides

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Authors William Borrelli, Nour Kerraoui, Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos

Publication date 18 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Quantum dots, waveguides, ratchets, etc. (81Q37) Quantum waveguides, quantum wires (82D77)

Abstract: We consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions posed in a tubular neighborhood of a $C^4$-planar curve. Under generic assumptions on its curvature $kappa$, we prove that in the thin-width regime the splitting of the eigenvalues is driven by the one dimensional Schr"odinger operator on $L^2(mathbbR)$ [ mathcal{L}_e := -frac{d^2}{ds^2} - frac{kappa^2}{pi^2} ] with a geometrically induced potential. The eigenvalues are shown to be at distance of order $varepsilon$ from the essential spectrum, where $2varepsilon$ is the width of the waveguide. This is in contrast with the non-relativistic counterpart of this model, for which they are known to be at a finite distance.

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