Stability of closed gaps for the alternating Kronig-Penney Hamiltonian

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dc.contributor.areaMathematicsen_US
dc.contributor.authorMichelangeli, Alessandro
dc.contributor.authorMonaco, Domenico
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-01T14:59:28Z
dc.date.available2015-04-01T14:59:28Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractWe consider the Kronig-Penney model for a quantum crystal with equispaced periodic delta-interactions of alternating strength. For this model all spectral gaps at the centre of the Brillouin zone are known to vanish, although so far this noticeable property has only been proved through a very delicate analysis of the discriminant of the corresponding ODE and the associated monodromy matrix. We provide a new, alternative proof by showing that this model can be approximated, in the norm resolvent sense, by a model of regular periodic interactions with finite range for which all gaps at the centre of the Brillouin zone are still vanishing. In particular this shows that the vanishing gap property is stable in the sense that it is present also for the "physical" approximants and is not only a feature of the idealised model of zero-range interactions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://openscience.sissa.it/handle/1963/34460
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dc.miur.area1en_US
dc.publisherSISSAen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSISSA;16/2015/MATE
dc.titleStability of closed gaps for the alternating Kronig-Penney Hamiltonianen_US
dc.typePreprinten_US
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