Eigenvalue Asymptotics of the Even-Dimensional Exterior Landau-Neumann Hamiltonian.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2009, Article ID 873704, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2009/873704 Research Article Eigenvalue Asymptotics of the Even-Dimensional Exterior Landau-Neumann Hamiltonian Mikael Persson Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and Goteborg University, ¨ 412 96 Goteborg, Sweden ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Mikael Persson, mickep@chalmers.se Received 27 June 2008; Accepted 22 October 2008 Recommended by Pavel Exner We study the Schrodinger operator with a constant magnetic field in the exterior of a compact ¨ domain in R2d, d ≥ 1. The spectrum of this operator consists of clusters of eigenvalues around the Landau levels. We give asymptotic formulas for the rate of accumulation of eigenvalues in these clusters. When the compact is a Reinhardt domain we are able to show a more precise asymptotic formula. Copyright q 2009 Mikael Persson. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction The Landau Hamiltonian describes a charged particle moving in a plane, influenced by a constant magnetic field of strength B 0 orthogonal to the plane. It is a classical result, see 1, 2, that the spectrum of the Landau Hamiltonian consists of infinitely degenerate eigenvalues B 2q 1, q 0, 1, 2, . . ., called Landau levels. In this paper, we will study the even-dimensional Landau Hamiltonian outside a compact obstacle, imposing magnetic Neumann conditions at the boundary. Our motivation to study