International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 23, Pages 3751-3766
doi:10.1155/IJMMS.2005.3751
On the spectrum and eigenfunctions of the Schrödinger operator with Aharonov-Bohm magnetic
field
Department of Mathematics, School of Engineering Sciences, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 10044, Sweden
Received 14 June 2005; Revised 6 October 2005
Copyright © 2005 Anders M. Hansson. 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.
Abstract
We explicitly compute the spectrum and eigenfunctions of the magnetic Schrödinger operator H(A→,V)=(i∇+A→)2+V in L2(ℝ2), with Aharonov-Bohm vector potential, A→(x1,x2)=α(−x2,x1)/|x|2, and either quadratic or Coulomb scalar
potential V. We also determine sharp constants in the CLR
inequality, both dependent on the fractional part of
α and both greater than unity. In the case of quadratic
potential, it turns out that the LT inequality holds for all
γ≥1 with the classical constant, as expected from the
nonmagnetic system (harmonic oscillator).