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Publications and source records attributed to Josef Mehringer.
We investigate the spectrum of the two-dimensional Pauli operator, describing a spin-$1/2$ particle in a magnetic field $B$, with a negative scalar potential $V$ such that $|V|$ grows at infinity. In particular, we obtain criteria for discrete and dense pure-point spectrum.
We consider two-dimensional massless Dirac operators in a radially symmetric electromagnetic field. In this case the fields may be described by one-dimensional electric and magnetic potentials $V$ and $A$. We show dynamical localization in the regime when $\displaystyle\lim_{r\to\infty}|V|/|A |<1$, where dense point spectrum occurs.
Investigating properties of two-dimensional Dirac operators coupled to an electric and a magnetic field (perpendicular to the plane) requires in general unbounded (vector-) potentials. If the system has a certain symmetry, the fields can be described by one-dimensional potentials $V$ and $A$. Assuming that $|A|<|V|$ outside some arbitrary large ball, we show that absolutely continuous states of the effective Dirac operators spread ballistically. These results are based on well-known methods in spectral dynamics together with certain new Hilbert-Schmidt bounds. We use Lorentz boosts to derive these new estimates.
We consider a two-dimensional massless Dirac operator coupled to a magnetic field $B$ and an electric potential $V$ growing at infinity. We find a characterization of the spectrum of the resulting operator $H$ in terms of the relation between $B$ and $V$ at infinity. In particular, we give a sharp condition for the discreteness of the spectrum of $H$ beyond which we find dense pure point spectrum.