Square billiard with a magnetic flux

Narevich1, Prange, Zaitsev

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA.

Summary

Researchers studied quantum billiards with magnetic fields and Aharonov-Bohm flux. They found explicit formulas for energy levels and wave functions in a quasiclassical approximation, revealing localized and mixed magnetic states.

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