Manifestation of the topological index formula in quantum waves and geophysical waves

Abstract

Using semi-classical analysis in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ we present a quite general model for which the topological index formula of Atiyah-Singer predicts a spectral flow with the transition of a finite number of eigenvalues between clusters (energy bands). This model corresponds to physical phenomena that are well observed for quantum energy levels of small molecules [faure_zhilinskii_2000,2001], also in geophysics for the oceanic or atmospheric equatorial waves [Matsuno_1966, Delplace_Marston_Venaille_2017] and expected to be observed in plasma physics [Qin, Fu 2022].