On the spectral gap of higher-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators on large domains

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the spectral gap of Schr\"odinger operators in two and higher dimensions and in a limit where the volume of the domain tends to infinity. Depending on properties of the underlying potential, we will find different asymptotic behaviours of the gap. In some cases the gap behaves as the gap of the free Dirichlet Laplacian and in some cases it does not.