Resonances for Thin Barriers on the Circle

Abstract

We study high energy resonances for the operator $-{\Delta }_{V,\partial \Omega }:=-\Delta +{\delta }_{\partial \Omega }\otimes V$ when $V$ has strong frequency dependence. The operator $-{\Delta }_{V,\partial \Omega }$ is a Hamiltonian used to model both quantum corrals and leaky quantum graphs. Since highly frequency dependent delta potentials are out of reach of the more general techniques in previous work, we study the special case where $\Omega =B(0,1)\subset {\mathbb{R}}^2$ and $V\equiv h^{-\alpha }{V}_0>0$ with $\alpha \le 1$. Here $h^{-1}\sim \Re \lambda$ is the frequency. We give sharp bounds on the size of resonance free regions for $\alpha \le 1$ and the location of bands of resonances when $5/6\le \alpha \le 1$. Finally, we give a lower bound on the number of resonances in logarithmic size strips: $-M\log \Re \lambda \le \Im \lambda \le 0$.

23 pages, 6 figure

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