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Analysis of periodic Schrodinger operators: regularity and approximation of eigenfunctions.
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posted on 2015-03-31, 10:37 authored by Eugenie Hunsicker, Victor Nistor, Jorge O. SofoLet V be a real valued potential that is smooth everywhere on R 3 , except at a periodic, discrete set S of points, where it has singularities of the Coulomb-type Z/r . We assume that the potential V is periodic with period lattice L . We study the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator H=−Δ+V acting on the space of Bloch waves with arbitrary, but fixed, wavevector k . Let T≔R 3 /L . Let u be an eigenfunction of H with eigenvalueλ and let ϵ>0 be arbitrarily small. We show that the classical regularity of the eigenfunction u is u∊H 5/2−ϵ (T) in the usual Sobolev spaces, and u∊K m 3/2−ϵ (T\S) in the weighted Sobolev spaces. The regularity index m can be as large as desired, which is crucial for numerical methods. For any choice of the Bloch wavevector k , we also show that H has compact resolvent and hence a complete eigenfunction expansion. The case of the hydrogen atom suggests that our regularity results are optimal. We present two applications to the numerical approximation of eigenvalues: using wave functions and using piecewise polynomials.
Funding
V.N. was supported in part by NSF Grant Nos. DMS 0555831, DMS 0713743, and OCI 0749202.
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J. Math. Phys.Volume
49Issue
8Pages
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HUNSICKER, E., NISTOR, V. and SOFO, J.O., 2008. Analysis of periodic Schrodinger operators: regularity and approximation of eigenfunctions. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 49 (8), 083501.Publisher
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