Pavel Exner, Vladimir Lotoreichik, Milos Tater Spectral and resonance properties of Smilansky Hamiltonian (4983K, pdf) ABSTRACT. We analyze the Hamiltonian proposed by Smilansky to describe irreversible dynamics in quantum graphs and studied further by Solomyak and others. We derive a weak-coupling asymptotics of the ground state and add new insights by finding the discrete spectrum numerically. Furthermore, we show that the model has a rich resonance structure.