Coupling of the continuum and semiclassical limit. Part I: convergence of eigenvalues

Abstract

We analyze the semiclassical $d$-dimensional Schrödinger operator in the continuum $\frac{1}{2}\Delta +{\lambda }_N^{2}V$ discretized on a mesh with spacing proportional to $1/N$. The semi-classical parameter ${\lambda }_N$ is chosen as ${\lambda }_N=N^{1-\gamma }$, with $\gamma \in (-1,1)$, which ensures that $N$ governs both the semiclassical and continuum limit simultaneously. We prove that all eigenvalues of the discrete operator converge to those of the continuum, as ${\lambda }_N\to \infty$. Beyond this semi-classical domain, in the case of the harmonic oscillator, we further discuss the spectral asymptotics for $\gamma \in \mathbb{R}\setminus (-1,1)$, thereby fully characterizing the eigenvalue behavior across all possible values of $\gamma \in \mathbb{R}$.

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