Effective Dynamics of Translationally Invariant Magnetic Schr\"odinger Equations in the High Field Limit

Abstract

We study the large field limit in Schr\"odinger equations with magnetic vector potentials describing translationally invariant $B$-fields with respect to the $z$-axis. In a first step, using regular perturbation theory, we derive an approximate description of the solution, provided the initial data is compactly supported in the Fourier-variable dual to $z\in \mathbb R$. The effective dynamics is thereby seen to produce high-frequency oscillations and large magnetic drifts. In a second step we show, by using the theory of almost invariant subspaces, that this asymptotic description is stable under polynomially bounded perturbations that vanish in the vicinity of the origin.