We give a survey of results on the Lieb-Thirring inequalities for the eigenvalue moments of Schrödinger operators. In particular, we discuss the optimal values of the constants therein for higher dimensions. We elaborate on certain generalisations and some open problems as well.
We define the Bloch spectrum of a quantum graph to be the map that assigns to each element in the deRham cohomology the spectrum of an associated magnetic Schrödinger operator. We show that the Bloch spectrum determines the Albanese torus, the block structure and the planarity of the graph. It determines a geometric dual of a planar graph. This enables us to show that the Bloch spectrum indentifies and completely determines planar -connected quantum graphs.
The main aim of our lectures is to give a pedagogical introduction to various mathematical formalisms used to describe open quantum systems: completely positive semigroups, dilations of semigroups, quantum Langevin dynamics and the so-called Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonians. We explain two kinds of the weak coupling limit. Both of them show that Hamiltonian dynamics of a small quantum system interacting with a large resevoir can be approximated by simpler dynamics. The better known reduced weak coupling...
This paper explores in some detail a recent proposal (the Rieffel induction/refined algebraic quantization scheme) for the quantization of constrained gauge systems. Below, the focus is on systems with a single constraint and, in this context, on the uniqueness of the construction. While in general the results depend heavily on the choices made for certain auxiliary structures, an additional physical argument leads to a unique result for typical cases. We also discuss the 'superselection laws' that...
In this paper, we present a new point of view on the renormalization of some exponential sums stemming from number theory. We generalize this renormalization procedure to study some matrix cocycles arising in spectral problems of quantum mechanics
We consider the 3D Schrödinger operator where , is a magnetic potential generating a constant magneticfield of strength , and is a short-range electric potential which decays superexponentially with respect to the variable along the magnetic field. We show that the resolvent of admits a meromorphic extension from the upper half plane to an appropriate Riemann surface , and define the resonances of as the poles of this meromorphic extension. We study their distribution near any fixed...
Dans cet exposé, on décrit un travail effectué sous la direction de J. Sjöstrand. On prouve des majorations et des minorations du nombre de résonances d’un opérateur de Schrödinger semi-classique dans des petits disques centrés en , une valeur critique de .
We use the functorial properties of Rieffel’s pseudodifferential calculus to study families of operators associated to topological dynamical systems acted by a symplectic space. Information about the spectra and the essential spectra are extracted from the quasi-orbit structure of the dynamical system. The semi-classical behavior of the families of spectra is also studied.