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Philippe Briet

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Dynamical resonances and SSF singularities for a magnetic Schroedinger operator

We consider the Hamiltonian $H$ of a 3D spinless non-relativistic quantum particle subject to parallel constant magnetic and non-constant electric field. The operator $H$ has infinitely many eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity embedded in its continuous spectrum. We perturb $H$ by appropriate scalar potentials $V$ and investigate the transformation of these embedded eigenvalues into resonances. First, we assume that the electric potentials are dilation-analytic with respect to the variable along the magnetic field, and obtain an asymptotic expansion of the resonances as the coupling constant $\varkappa$ of the perturbation tends to zero. Further, under the assumption that the Fermi Golden Rule holds true, we deduce estimates for the time evolution of the resonance states with and without analyticity assumptions; in the second case we obtain these results as a corollary of suitable Mourre estimates and a recent article of Cattaneo, Graf and Hunziker \cite{cgh}. Next, we describe sets of perturbations $V$ for which the Fermi Golden Rule is valid at each embedded eigenvalue of $H$; these sets turn out to be dense in various suitable topologies. Finally, we assume that $V$ decays fast enough at infinity and is of definite sign, introduce the Krein spectral shift function for the operator pair $(H+V, H)$, and study its singularities at the energies which coincide with eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity of the unperturbed operator $H$.

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Diamagnetic expansions for perfect quantum gases II: uniform bounds

Consider a charged, perfect quantum gas, in the effective mass approximation, and in the grand-canonical ensemble. We prove in this paper that the generalized magnetic susceptibilities admit the thermodynamic limit for all admissible fugacities, uniformly on compacts included in the analyticity domain of the grand-canonical pressure. The problem and the proof strategy were outlined in \cite{3}. In \cite{4} we proved in detail the pointwise thermodynamic limit near $z=0$. The present paper is the last one of this series, and contains the proof of the uniform bounds on compacts needed in order to apply Vitali's Convergence Theorem.

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Spectral Properties of a Magnetic Quantum Hamiltonian on a Strip

We consider a 2D Schroedinger operator H0 with constant magnetic field, on a strip of finite width. The spectrum of H0 is absolutely continuous, and contains a discrete set of thresholds. We perturb H0 by an electric potential V which decays in a suitable sense at infinity, and study the spectral properties of the perturbed operator H = H0 + V . First, we establish a Mourre estimate, and as a corollary prove that the singular continuous spectrum of H is empty, and any compact subset of the complement of the threshold set may contain at most a finite set of eigenvalues of H, each of them having a finite multiplicity. Next, we introduce the Krein spectral shift function (SSF) for the operator pair (H,H0). We show that this SSF is bounded on any compact subset of the complement of the threshold set, and is continuous away from the threshold set and the eigenvalues of H. The main results of the article concern the asymptotic behaviour of the SSF at the thresholds, which is described in terms of the SSF for a pair of effective Hamiltonians.

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Generalized susceptibilities for a perfect quantum gas

The system we consider here is a charged fermions gas in the effective mass approximation, and in grand-canonical conditions. We assume that the particles are confined in a three dimensional cubic box $Λ$ with side $L\geq 1$, and subjected to a constant magnetic field of intensity $ B \geq 0 $. Define the grand canonical generalized susceptibilities $χ_L^N$, $N\geq 1$, as successive partial derivatives with respect to $B$ of the grand canonical pressure $P_L$. Denote by $P_{\infty}$ the thermodynamic limit of $P_L$. Our main result is that $χ_L^N$ admit as thermodynamic limit the corresponding partial derivatives with respect to $B$ of $P_{\infty}$. In this paper we only give the main steps of the proofs, technical details will be given elsewhere.

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Diamagnetic expansions for perfect quantum gases

In this work we study the diamagnetic properties of a perfect quantum gas in the presence of a constant magnetic field of intensity $B$. We investigate the Gibbs semigroup associated to the one particle operator at finite volume, and study its Taylor series with respect to the field parameter $ω:= eB/c$ in different topologies. This allows us to prove the existence of the thermodynamic limit for the pressure and for all its derivatives with respect to $ω$ (the so-called generalized susceptibilities).

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