Eigenvalue bounds for radial magnetic bottles on the disk
Françoise Truc · Asymptotic Analysis · 2012
We consider a Schrödinger operator H A D with a non-vanishing radial magnetic field B=dA and Dirichlet boundary conditions on the unit disk. We assume growth conditions on B near the boundary which guarantee in particular the compactness of the resolvent of this operator. Under some assumptions on an additional radial potential V the operator H A D −V has a discrete negative spectrum and we obtain an upper bound of the number of negative eigenvalues. As a consequence we get an upper bound of the number of eigenvalues of H A D smaller than any positive value λ, which involves the minimum of B and the square of the L 2 -norm of A(r)/r, where A(r) is the specific magnetic potential defined as the flux of the magnetic field through the disk of radius r centered in the origin.