Stability estimate in an inverse problem for non-autonomous Schr\"odinger equations

We consider the inverse problem of determining the time dependent magnetic field of the Schr\"odinger equation in a bounded open subset of $R^n$, with $n \geq 1$, from a finite number of Neumann data, when the boundary measurement is taken on an appropriate open subset of the boundary. We prove the Lispchitz stability of the magnetic potential in the Coulomb gauge class by $n$ times changing initial value suitably

Edge Currents for Quantum Hall Systems, II. Two-Edge, Bounded and Unbounded Geometries

Devices exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect can be modeled by one-electron Schroedinger operators describing the planar motion of an electron in a perpendicular, constant magnetic field, and under the influence of an electrostatic potential. The electron motion is confined to bounded or unbounded subsets of the plane by confining potential barriers. The edges of the confining potential barriers create edge currents. This is the second of two papers in which we review recent progress and prove explicit lower bounds on the edge currents associated with one- and two-edge geometries. In this paper, we study various unbounded and bounded, two-edge geometries with soft and hard confining potentials. These two-edge geometries describe the electron confined to unbounded regions in the plane, such as a strip, or to bounded regions, such as a finite length cylinder. We prove that the edge currents are stable under various perturbations, provided they are suitably small relative to the magnetic field strength, including perturbations by random potentials. The existence of, and the estimates on, the edge currents are independent of the spectral type of the operator.Comment: 57 page

Uniqueness and stability results for an inverse spectral problem in a periodic waveguide

Let $\Omega =\omega\times\mathbb R$ where $\omega\subset \mathbb R^2$ be a bounded domain, and $V : \Omega \to\mathbb R$ a bounded potential which is $2\pi$-periodic in the variable $x_{3}\in \mathbb R$. We study the inverse problem consisting in the determination of $V$, through the boundary spectral data of the operator $u\mapsto Au := -\Delta u + Vu$, acting on $L^2(\omega\times(0,2\pi))$, with quasi-periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions. More precisely we show that if for two potentials $V_{1}$ and $V_{2}$ we denote by $(\lambda_{1,k})_{k}$ and $(\lambda_{2,k})_{k}$ the eigenvalues associated to the operators $A_{1}$ and $A_{2}$ (that is the operator $A$ with $V := V_{1}$ or $V:=V_{2}$), then if $\lambda_{1,k} - \lambda_{2,k} \to 0$ as $k \to \infty$ we have that $V_{1} \equiv V_{2}$, provided one knows also that $\sum_{k\geq 1}\|\psi_{1,k} - \psi_{2,k}\|_{L^2(\partial\omega\times[0,2\pi])}^2 < \infty$, where $\psi_{m,k} := \partial\phi_{m,k}/\partial{\bf n}$. We establish also an optimal Lipschitz stability estimate. The arguments developed here may be applied to other spectral inverse problems, and similar results can be obtained

Double logarithmic stability estimate in the identification of a scalar potential by a partial elliptic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

We examine the stability issue in the inverse problem of determining a scalar potential appearing in the stationary Schr{\"o}dinger equation in a bounded domain, from a partial elliptic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Namely, the Dirichlet data is imposed on the shadowed face of the boundary of the domain and the Neumann data is measured on its illuminated face. We establish a log log stability estimate for the L2-norm (resp. the H minus 1-norm) of bounded (resp. L2) potentials whose difference is lying in any Sobolev space of order positive order

Determining the waveguide conductivity in a hyperbolic equation from a single measurement on the lateral boundary

We consider the multidimensional inverse problem of determining the conductivity coefficient of a hyperbolic equation in an infinite cylindrical domain, from a single boundary observation of the solution. We prove H{\"o}lder stability with the aid of a Carleman estimate specifically designed for hyperbolic waveguides