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Jens Wittsten

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arXiv2025

Bohr--Sommerfeld rules for systems

We present a complete, self-contained formulation of the Bohr--Sommerfeld quantization rule for a semiclassical self-adjoint $2 \times 2$ system on the real line, arising from a simple closed curve in phase space. We focus on the case where the principal symbol exhibits eigenvalue crossings within the domain enclosed by the curve -- a situation commonly encountered in Dirac-type operators. Building on earlier work on scalar Bohr--Sommerfeld rules and semiclassical treatments of the Harper operator near rational flux quanta, we derive concise expressions for general self-adjoint $2 \times 2$ systems. The resulting formulas give explicit geometric phase corrections and clarify when these phases take quantized values.

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arXiv2025

Warehouse storage and retrieval optimization via clustering, dynamical systems modeling, and GPU-accelerated routing

This paper introduces a warehouse optimization procedure aimed at enhancing the efficiency of product storage and retrieval. By representing product locations and order flows within a time-evolving graph structure, we employ unsupervised clustering to define and refine compact order regions, effectively reducing picking distances. We describe the procedure using a dynamic mathematical model formulated using tools from random dynamical systems theory, enabling a principled analysis of the system's behavior over time even under random operational variations. For routing within this framework, we implement a parallelized Bellman-Ford algorithm, utilizing GPU acceleration to evaluate path segments efficiently. To address scalability challenges inherent in large routing graphs, we introduce a segmentation strategy that preserves performance while maintaining tractable memory requirements. Our results demonstrate significant improvements in both operational efficiency and computational feasibility for large-scale warehouse environments.

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arXiv2024

Discrete vs. continuous in the semiclassical limit

We compare the bottom of the spectrum of discrete and continuous Schrödinger operators with periodic potentials with barriers at the boundaries of their fundamental domains. Our results show that these energy levels coincide in the semiclassical limit and we provide an explicit rate of convergence. We demonstrate the optimality of our results by using Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditions for potentials exhibiting non-degenerate wells, and by numerical experiments for more general potentials. We also investigate the dependence of the spectrum of the discrete semiclassical Schrödinger operator on the semiclassical parameter $h$ and show that it can be discontinuous.

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arXiv2024

Hofstadter butterflies and metal/insulator transitions for moiré heterostructures

We consider a tight-binding model recently introduced by Timmel and Mele for strained moiré heterostructures. We consider two honeycomb lattices to which layer antisymmetric shear strain is applied to periodically modulate the tunneling between the lattices in one distinguished direction. This effectively reduces the model to one spatial dimension and makes it amenable to the theory of matrix-valued quasi-periodic operators. We then study the charge transport and spectral properties of this system, explaining the appearance of a Hofstadter-type butterfly and the occurrence of metal/insulator transitions that have recently been experimentally verified for non-interacting moiré systems. For sufficiently incommensurable moiré lengths, described by a diophantine condition, as well as strong coupling between the lattices, which can be tuned by applying physical pressure, this leads to the occurrence of localization phenomena.

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arXiv2023

Chiral limit of twisted trilayer graphene

We initiate the mathematical study of the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian for twisted trilayer graphene in the chiral limit (and beyond). We develop a spectral theoretic approach to investigate the presence of flat bands under specific magic parameters. This allows us to derive trace formulae that show that the tunnelling parameters that lead to flat bands are nowhere continuous as functions of the twisting angles.

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arXiv2022

Quenched limit theorems for random U(1) extensions of expanding maps

The Lyapunov spectra of random U(1) extensions of expanding maps on the torus were investigated in our previous work [NW2015]. Using the result, we extend the recent spectral approach for quenched limit theorems for expanding maps [DFGV2018] and hyperbolic maps [DFGV2019] to our partially hyperbolic dynamics. Quenched central limit theorems, large deviations principles and local central limit theorems for random U(1) extensions of expanding maps on the torus are proved via corresponding theorems for abstract random dynamical systems.

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arXiv2022

Semiclassical quantization conditions in strained moir\'e lattices

In this article we generalize the Bohr-Sommerfeld rule for scalar symbols at a potential well to matrix-valued symbols having eigenvalues that may coalesce precisely at the bottom of the well. As an application, we study the existence of approximately flat bands in moir\'e heterostructures such as strained two-dimensional honeycomb lattices in a model recently introduced by Timmel and Mele.

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arXiv2022

Uniqueness theorems for weighted harmonic functions in the upper half-plane

We consider a class of weighted harmonic functions in the open upper half-plane known as $\alpha$-harmonic functions. Of particular interest is the uniqueness problem for such functions subject to a vanishing Dirichlet boundary value on the real line and an appropriate vanishing condition at infinity. We find that the non-classical case ($\alpha\neq0$) allows for a considerably more relaxed vanishing condition at infinity compared to the classical case ($\alpha=0$) of usual harmonic functions in the upper half-plane. The reason behind this dichotomy is different geometry of zero sets of certain polynomials naturally derived from the classical binomial series. Our findings shed new light on the theory of harmonic functions, for which we provide uniqueness results under vanishing conditions at infinity along a) geodesics, and b) rays emanating from the origin. The geodesic uniqueness results require vanishing on two distinct geodesics which is best possible. The ray uniqueness results involves an arithmetic condition which we analyze by introducing the concept of an admissible function of angles. We show that the arithmetic condition is to the point and that the set of admissible functions of angles is minimal with respect to a natural partial order.

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arXiv2021

Finite-difference modeling of 2-D wave propagation in the vicinity of dipping interfaces: a comparison of anti-aliasing and equivalent medium approaches

Finite-difference (FD) modeling of seismic waves in the vicinity of dipping interfaces gives rise to artifacts. Examples are phase and amplitude errors, as well as staircase diffractions. Such errors can be reduced in two general ways. In the first approach, the interface can be anti-aliased (i.e., with an anti-aliased step-function, or a lowpass filter). Alternatively, the interface may be replaced with an equivalent medium (i.e., using Schoenberg \& Muir (SM) calculus or orthorhombic averaging). We test these strategies in acoustic, elastic isotropic, and elastic anisotropic settings. Computed FD solutions are compared to analytical solutions. We find that in acoustic media, anti-aliasing methods lead to the smallest errors. Conversely, in elastic media, the SM calculus provides the best accuracy. The downside of the SM calculus is that it requires an anisotropic FD solver even to model an interface between two isotropic materials. As a result, the computational cost increases compared to when using isotropic FD solvers. However, since coarser grid spacings can be used to represent the dipping interfaces, the two effects (an expensive FD solver on a coarser FD grid) equal out. Hence, the SM calculus can provide an efficient means to reduce errors, also in elastic isotropic media.

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arXiv2021

Mathematics of magic angles in a model of twisted bilayer graphene

We provide a mathematical account of the recent Physical Reviews Letter by Tarnopolsky--Kruchkov--Vishwanath. The new contributions are a spectral characterization of magic angles, its accurate numerical implementation and an exponential estimate on the squeezing of all bands as the angle decreases. Pseudospectral phenomena due to the non-hermitian nature of operators appearing in the model play a crucial role in our analysis.

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arXiv2021

Complex eigenvalue splitting for the Dirac operator

We analyze the eigenvalue problem for the semiclassical Dirac (or Zakharov-Shabat) operator on the real line with general analytic potential. We provide Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditions near energy levels where the potential exhibits the characteristics of a single or double bump function. From these conditions we infer that near energy levels where the potential (or rather its square) looks like a single bump function, all eigenvalues are purely imaginary. For even or odd potentials we infer that near energy levels where the square of the potential looks like a double bump function, eigenvalues split in pairs exponentially close to reference points on the imaginary axis. For even potentials this splitting is vertical and for odd potentials it is horizontal, meaning that all such eigenvalues are purely imaginary when the potential is even, and no such eigenvalue is purely imaginary when the potential is odd.

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arXiv2021

Removing numerical dispersion from linear evolution equations

We describe a method for removing the numerical errors in the modeling of linear evolution equations that are caused by approximating the time derivative by a finite difference operator. The method is based on integral transforms realized as certain Fourier integral operators, called time dispersion transforms, and we prove that, under an assumption about the frequency content, it yields a solution with correct evolution throughout the entire lifespan. We demonstrate the method on a model equation as well as on the simulation of elastic and viscoelastic wave propagation.

math.NA↗
arXiv2020

Spectral characterization of magic angles in twisted bilayer graphene

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has been experimentally observed to exhibit almost flat bands when the twisting occurs at certain magic angles. In this letter, we report new results on the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene and its electronic band structure. Under we show that in the approximation of vanishing AA-coupling, the magic angles (at which there exist entirely flat bands) are given as the eigenvalues of a non-hermitian operator, and that all bands start squeezing exponentially fast as the angle $θ$ tends to $0$. In particular, as the interaction potential changes, the dynamics of magic angles involves the non-physical complex eigenvalues. Using our new spectral characterization, we show that the equidistant scaling of inverse magic angles, is special for the choice of tunnelling potentials in the continuum model, and is not protected by symmetries. While we also show that the protection of zero-energy states holds in the continuum model as long as particle-hole symmetry is preserved, we observe that the existence of flat bands and the exponential squeezing are special properties of the chiral model.

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arXiv2019

Perfect partial reconstructions for multiple simultaneous sources

A major focus of research in the seismic industry of the past two decades has been the acquisition and subsequent separation of seismic data using multiple sources fired simultaneously. The recently introduced method of {\it signal apparition} provides a new take on the problem by replacing the random time-shifts usually employed to encode the different sources by fully deterministic periodic time-shifts. In this paper we give a mathematical proof showing that the signal apparition method results in optimally large regions in the frequency-wavenumber space where exact separation of sources is achieved. These regions are diamond-shaped and we prove that using any other method of source encoding results in strictly smaller regions of exact separation. The results are valid for arbitrary number of sources. Numerical examples for different number of sources (three resp.~four sources) demonstrate the exact recovery of these diamond-shaped regions. The theoretical proofs' implementation in the field is illustrated by the results of a conducted field test.

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arXiv2016

The partial captivity condition for U(1) extensions of expanding maps on the circle

This paper concerns the compact group extension \[ f:\mathbb{T}^2\to \mathbb{T}^2,\quad f (x,s)= (E(x), s+τ(x)\ \text{mod }1) \] of an expanding map $E:\mathbb{S}^1\to \mathbb{S}^1$. The dynamics of $f$ and its stochastic perturbations have previously been studied under the so-called partial captivity condition. Here we prove a supplementary result that shows that partial captivity is a $\mathscr{C}^r$ generic condition on $τ$, once we fix $E$.

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arXiv2015

Generalized axially symmetric potentials with distributional boundary values

We study a counterpart of the classical Poisson integral for a family of weighted Laplace differential equations in Euclidean half space, solutions of which are known as generalized axially symmetric potentials. These potentials appear naturally in the study of hyperbolic Brownian motion with drift. We determine the optimal class of tempered distributions which by means of the so-called $\mathscr{S}'$-convolution can be extended to generalized axially symmetric potentials. In the process, the associated Dirichlet boundary value problem is solved, and we obtain sharp order relations for the asymptotic growth of these extensions.

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arXiv2015

On the spectra of quenched random perturbations of partially expanding maps on the torus

We consider quenched random perturbations of skew products of rotations on the unit circle over uniformly expanding maps on the unit circle. It is known that if the skew product satisfies a certain condition (shown to be generic in the case of linear expanding maps), then the transfer operator of the skew product has a spectral gap. Using semiclassical analysis we show that the spectral gap is preserved under small random perturbations. This implies exponential decay of quenched random correlation functions for smooth observables at small noise levels.

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