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We study the question of magnetic confinement of quantum particles on the unit disk \({\mathbb {D}}\) in \({\mathbb {R}^2}\) , i.e. we wish to achieve confinement solely by means of the growth of the magnetic field \({B(\vec x)}\) near the boundary of the disk. In the spinless case, we show that \({B(\vec x)\ge \frac{\sqrt 3}{2}\cdot\frac{1}{(1-r)^2}-\frac{1}{\sqrt 3}\frac{1}{(1-r)^2\ln \frac{1}{1-r}}}\) , for \({|\vec x|}\) close to 1, insures the confinement provided we assume that the non-radially symmetric part of the magnetic field is not very singular near the boundary. Both constants \({\frac{\sqrt 3}{2}}\) and \({-\frac{1}{\sqrt 3}}\) are optimal. This answers, in this context, an open question from Colin de Verdière and Truc (Ann Inst Fourier 2011, Preprint, arXiv:0903.0803v3). We also derive growth conditions for radially symmetric magnetic fields which lead to confinement of spin 1/2 particles.
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Nenciu, G., Nenciu, I. On Essential Self-Adjointness for Magnetic Schrödinger and Pauli Operators on the Unit Disc in \({\mathbb {R}^2}\) . Lett Math Phys 98, 207–223 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-011-0506-9
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