Spectral transition for Dirac operators with electrostatic $\delta$-shell potentials supported on the straight line

Abstract

In this note the two dimensional Dirac operator $A_{\eta }$ with an electrostatic $\delta$-shell interaction of strength $\eta \in \mathbb{R}$ supported on a straight line is studied. We observe a spectral transition in the sense that for the critical interaction strengths $\eta =\pm 2$ the continuous spectrum of $A_{\eta }$ inside the spectral gap of the free Dirac operator $A_0$ collapses abruptly to a single point.

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