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    Stability of the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator in a waveguide

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    The spectrum of the Schr\"odinger operator in a quantum waveguide is known to be unstable in two and three dimensions. Any enlargement of the waveguide produces eigenvalues beneath the continuous spectrum. Also if the waveguide is bent eigenvalues will arise below the continuous spectrum. In this paper a magnetic field is added into the system. The spectrum of the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator is proved to be stable under small local deformations and also under small bending of the waveguide. The proof includes a magnetic Hardy-type inequality in the waveguide, which is interesting in its own

    Strong-coupling asymptotic expansion for Schr\"odinger operators with a singular interaction supported by a curve in R3\mathbb{R}^3

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    We investigate a class of generalized Schr\"{o}dinger operators in L2(R3)L^2(\mathbb{R}^3) with a singular interaction supported by a smooth curve Γ\Gamma. We find a strong-coupling asymptotic expansion of the discrete spectrum in case when Γ\Gamma is a loop or an infinite bent curve which is asymptotically straight. It is given in terms of an auxiliary one-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger operator with a potential determined by the curvature of Γ\Gamma. In the same way we obtain an asymptotics of spectral bands for a periodic curve. In particular, the spectrum is shown to have open gaps in this case if Γ\Gamma is not a straight line and the singular interaction is strong enough.Comment: LaTeX 2e, 30 pages; minor improvements, to appear in Rev. Math. Phy

    Relativistic Scott correction in self-generated magnetic fields

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    We consider a large neutral molecule with total nuclear charge ZZ in a model with self-generated classical magnetic field and where the kinetic energy of the electrons is treated relativistically. To ensure stability, we assume that Zα<2/πZ \alpha < 2/\pi, where α\alpha denotes the fine structure constant. We are interested in the ground state energy in the simultaneous limit Z→∞Z \rightarrow \infty, α→0\alpha \rightarrow 0 such that κ=Zα\kappa=Z \alpha is fixed. The leading term in the energy asymptotics is independent of κ\kappa, it is given by the Thomas-Fermi energy of order Z7/3Z^{7/3} and it is unchanged by including the self-generated magnetic field. We prove the first correction term to this energy, the so-called Scott correction of the form S(αZ)Z2S(\alpha Z) Z^2. The current paper extends the result of \cite{SSS} on the Scott correction for relativistic molecules to include a self-generated magnetic field. Furthermore, we show that the corresponding Scott correction function SS, first identified in \cite{SSS}, is unchanged by including a magnetic field. We also prove new Lieb-Thirring inequalities for the relativistic kinetic energy with magnetic fields.Comment: Small typos corrected, new references adde

    Abelian subgroups of Garside groups

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    In this paper, we show that for every abelian subgroup HH of a Garside group, some conjugate g−1Hgg^{-1}Hg consists of ultra summit elements and the centralizer of HH is a finite index subgroup of the normalizer of HH. Combining with the results on translation numbers in Garside groups, we obtain an easy proof of the algebraic flat torus theorem for Garside groups and solve several algorithmic problems concerning abelian subgroups of Garside groups.Comment: This article replaces our earlier preprint "Stable super summit sets in Garside groups", arXiv:math.GT/060258

    Scattering through a straight quantum waveguide with combined boundary conditions

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    Scattering through a straight two-dimensional quantum waveguide Rx(0,d) with Dirichlet boundary conditions on (-\infty,0)x{y=0} \cup (0,\infty)x{y=d} and Neumann boundary condition on (-infty,0)x{y=d} \cup (0,\infty)x{y=0} is considered using stationary scattering theory. The existence of a matching conditions solution at x=0 is proved. The use of stationary scattering theory is justified showing its relation to the wave packets motion. As an illustration, the matching conditions are also solved numerically and the transition probabilities are shown.Comment: 26 pages, 3 figure

    Fisheye Consistency: Keeping Data in Synch in a Georeplicated World

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    Over the last thirty years, numerous consistency conditions for replicated data have been proposed and implemented. Popular examples of such conditions include linearizability (or atomicity), sequential consistency, causal consistency, and eventual consistency. These consistency conditions are usually defined independently from the computing entities (nodes) that manipulate the replicated data; i.e., they do not take into account how computing entities might be linked to one another, or geographically distributed. To address this lack, as a first contribution, this paper introduces the notion of proximity graph between computing nodes. If two nodes are connected in this graph, their operations must satisfy a strong consistency condition, while the operations invoked by other nodes are allowed to satisfy a weaker condition. The second contribution is the use of such a graph to provide a generic approach to the hybridization of data consistency conditions into the same system. We illustrate this approach on sequential consistency and causal consistency, and present a model in which all data operations are causally consistent, while operations by neighboring processes in the proximity graph are sequentially consistent. The third contribution of the paper is the design and the proof of a distributed algorithm based on this proximity graph, which combines sequential consistency and causal consistency (the resulting condition is called fisheye consistency). In doing so the paper not only extends the domain of consistency conditions, but provides a generic provably correct solution of direct relevance to modern georeplicated systems

    Quasi-classical versus non-classical spectral asymptotics for magnetic Schroedinger operators with decreasing electric potentials

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    We consider the Schroedinger operator H on L^2(R^2) or L^2(R^3) with constant magnetic field and electric potential V which typically decays at infinity exponentially fast or has a compact support. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the discrete spectrum of H near the boundary points of its essential spectrum. If the decay of V is Gaussian or faster, this behaviour is non-classical in the sense that it is not described by the quasi-classical formulas known for the case where V admits a power-like decay.Comment: Corrected versio

    Topologically protected quantum gates for computation with non-Abelian anyons in the Pfaffian quantum Hall state

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    We extend the topological quantum computation scheme using the Pfaffian quantum Hall state, which has been recently proposed by Das Sarma et al., in a way that might potentially allow for the topologically protected construction of a universal set of quantum gates. We construct, for the first time, a topologically protected Controlled-NOT gate which is entirely based on quasihole braidings of Pfaffian qubits. All single-qubit gates, except for the pi/8 gate, are also explicitly implemented by quasihole braidings. Instead of the pi/8 gate we try to construct a topologically protected Toffoli gate, in terms of the Controlled-phase gate and CNOT or by a braid-group based Controlled-Controlled-Z precursor. We also give a topologically protected realization of the Bravyi-Kitaev two-qubit gate g_3.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX; version 3: introduced section names, new reference added; new comment added about the embedding of the one- and two- qubit gates into a three-qubit syste

    Sufficient conditions for the existence of bound states in a central potential

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    We show how a large class of sufficient conditions for the existence of bound states, in non-positive central potentials, can be constructed. These sufficient conditions yield upper limits on the critical value, gc(ℓ)g_{\rm{c}}^{(\ell)}, of the coupling constant (strength), gg, of the potential, V(r)=−gv(r)V(r)=-g v(r), for which a first ℓ\ell-wave bound state appears. These upper limits are significantly more stringent than hitherto known results.Comment: 7 page

    Stable Determination of the Electromagnetic Coefficients by Boundary Measurements

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    The goal of this paper is to prove a stable determination of the coefficients for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations, in a Lipschitz domain, by boundary measurements
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