# Honeycomb Schrodinger Operators in the Strong Binding Regime

## Author(s): Fefferman, Charles L.; Lee-Thorp, James P; Weinstein, Michael I

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dc.contributor.authorFefferman, Charles L.-
dc.contributor.authorLee-Thorp, James P-
dc.contributor.authorWeinstein, Michael I-
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-10T16:58:22Z-
dc.date.available2019-12-10T16:58:22Z-
dc.date.issued2018-06en_US
dc.identifier.citationFefferman, Charles L, Lee-Thorp, James P, Weinstein, Michael I. (2018). Honeycomb Schrodinger Operators in the Strong Binding Regime. COMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 71 (1178 - 1270en_US
dc.identifier.issn0010-3640-
dc.identifier.urihttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr1xn22-
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we study the Schrodinger operator for a large class of periodic potentials with the symmetry of a hexagonal tiling of the plane. The potentials we consider are superpositions of localized potential wells, centered on the vertices of a regular honeycomb structure corresponding to the single electron model of graphene and its artificial analogues. We consider this Schrodinger operator in the regime of strong binding, where the depth of the potential wells is large. Our main result is that for sufficiently deep potentials, the lowest two Floquet-Bloch dispersion surfaces, when appropriately rescaled, converge uniformly to those of the two-band tight-binding model (Wallace, 1947 [56]). Furthermore, we establish as corollaries, in the regime of strong binding, results on (a) the existence of spectral gaps for honeycomb potentials that break P T symmetry and (b) the existence of topologically protected edge states-states that propagate parallel to and are localized transverse to a line defect or “edge”-for a large class of rational edges, and that are robust to a class of large transverse-localized perturbations of the edge. We believe that the ideas of this article may be applicable in other settings for which a tight-binding model emerges in an extreme parameter limit. (C) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.format.extent1178 - 1270en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCOMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICSen_US
dc.rightsAuthor's manuscripten_US
dc.titleHoneycomb Schrodinger Operators in the Strong Binding Regimeen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.date.eissued2017-12-18en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1097-0312-
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