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Eigenvalue Asymptotics for the Schrodinger Operator with Asymptotically Flat Magnetic Fields and Decreasing Electric Potential(Spectral and Scattering Theory and Its Related Topics)
Edge currents in the absence of edges
We investigate a charged two-dimensional particle in a homogeneous magnetic
field interacting with a periodic array of point obstacles. We show that while
Landau levels remain to be infinitely degenerate eigenvalues, between them the
system has bands of absolutely continuous spectrum and exhibits thus a
transport along the array. We also compute the band functions and the
corresponding probability current.Comment: Final version, to appear in Phys. Lett. A; 10 LaTeX pages with 3 eps
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Magnetic transport in a straight parabolic channel
We study a charged two-dimensional particle confined to a straight
parabolic-potential channel and exposed to a homogeneous magnetic field under
influence of a potential perturbation . If is bounded and periodic along
the channel, a perturbative argument yields the absolute continuity of the
bottom of the spectrum. We show it can have any finite number of open gaps
provided the confining potential is sufficiently strong. However, if
depends on the periodic variable only, we prove by Thomas argument that the
whole spectrum is absolutely continuous, irrespectively of the size of the
perturbation. On the other hand, if is small and satisfies a weak
localization condition in the the longitudinal direction, we prove by Mourre
method that a part of the absolutely continuous spectrum persists
Ballistic transport in random magnetic fields with anisotropic long-ranged correlations
We present exact theoretical results about energetic and dynamic properties
of a spinless charged quantum particle on the Euclidean plane subjected to a
perpendicular random magnetic field of Gaussian type with non-zero mean. Our
results refer to the simplifying but remarkably illuminating limiting case of
an infinite correlation length along one direction and a finite but strictly
positive correlation length along the perpendicular direction in the plane.
They are therefore ``random analogs'' of results first obtained by A. Iwatsuka
in 1985 and by J. E. M\"uller in 1992, which are greatly esteemed, in
particular for providing a basic understanding of transport properties in
certain quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures subjected to
non-random inhomogeneous magnetic fields
Morphological observations on pancreatic islets of spontaneous diabetic mice, \u27yellow kk\u27.
Studies on diabetogenic action of obesity in mice, congenital insulin resistance of kk mice.
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