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John Breuilly (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013
Energetic and dynamic properties of a quantum particle in a spatially random magnetic field with constant correlations along one direction
We consider an electrically charged particle on the Euclidean plane subjected
to a perpendicular magnetic field which depends only on one of the two
Cartesian co-ordinates. For such a ``unidirectionally constant'' magnetic field
(UMF), which otherwise may be random or not, we prove certain spectral and
transport properties associated with the corresponding one-particle
Schroedinger operator (without scalar potential) by analysing its ``energy-band
structure''. In particular, for an ergodic random UMF we provide conditions
which ensure that the operator's entire spectrum is almost surely absolutely
continuous. This implies that, along the direction in which the random UMF is
constant, the quantum-mechanical motion is almost surely ballistic, while in
the perpendicular direction in the plane one has dynamical localisation. The
conditions are verified, for example, for Gaussian and Poissonian random UMF's
with non-zero mean-values. These results may be viewed as ``random analogues''
of results first obtained by A. Iwatsuka [Publ. RIMS, Kyoto Univ. 21 (1985)
385] and (non-rigorously) by J. E. Mueller [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 385]
Ballistic transport in random magnetic fields with anisotropic long-ranged correlations
We present exact theoretical results about energetic and dynamic properties
of a spinless charged quantum particle on the Euclidean plane subjected to a
perpendicular random magnetic field of Gaussian type with non-zero mean. Our
results refer to the simplifying but remarkably illuminating limiting case of
an infinite correlation length along one direction and a finite but strictly
positive correlation length along the perpendicular direction in the plane.
They are therefore ``random analogs'' of results first obtained by A. Iwatsuka
in 1985 and by J. E. M\"uller in 1992, which are greatly esteemed, in
particular for providing a basic understanding of transport properties in
certain quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures subjected to
non-random inhomogeneous magnetic fields
Bounds on the heat kernel of the Schroedinger operator in a random electromagnetic field
We obtain lower and upper bounds on the heat kernel and Green functions of
the Schroedinger operator in a random Gaussian magnetic field and a fixed
scalar potential. We apply stochastic Feynman-Kac representation, diamagnetic
upper bounds and the Jensen inequality for the lower bound. We show that if the
covariance of the electromagnetic (vector) potential is increasing at large
distances then the lower bound is decreasing exponentially fast for large
distances and a large time.Comment: some technical improvements, new references, to appear in
Journ.Phys.
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