Lecture Notes in Mathematics

Karpeshina, Yulia E.

The book is devoted to perturbation theory for the Schrödinger operator with a periodic potential, describing motion of a particle in bulk matter. The Bloch eigenvalues of the operator are densely situated in a high energy region, so regular perturbation theory is ineffective. The mathematical difficulties have a physical nature - a complicated picture of diffraction inside the crystal. The author develops a new mathematical approach to this problem. It provides mathematical physicists with important results for this operator and a new technique that can be effective for other problems. The semiperiodic Schrödinger operator, describing a crystal with a surface, is studied. Solid-body theory specialists can find asymptotic formulae, which are necessary for calculating many physical values.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 1997-08-19

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783540631361

DOI: 10.1007/BFb0094264

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 356