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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">najo</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Наносистемы: физика, химия, математика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2220-8054</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2305-7971</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Университет ИТМО</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17586/2220-8054-2017-8-2-188-193</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">najo-650</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>MATHEMATICS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>МАТЕМАТИКА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Zigzag chain model and its spectrum</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Melikhova</surname><given-names>A. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kronverkskiy, 49, St. Petersburg, 197101</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">alina.s.melikhova@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="en">ITMO University<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2017</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>12</day><month>08</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>188</fpage><lpage>193</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Melikhova A.S., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Melikhova A.S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Melikhova A.S.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/650">https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/650</self-uri><abstract><p>This work describes the development of a model using a zigzag chain of weakly-coupled ball resonators with Neumann boundary conditions. The chain is assumed to be constructed of identical resonators connected through point-like apertures. The connecting points are described by their delta-coupling with a constant intensity. The model is based on the theory of self-adjoint extensions of symmetrical operators. Due to effectively one-dimensional joints, the 3D problem can be solved with assistance from the transfer matrix approach. This allows us to study the spectrum of the physical system. In particular, it is proven that the discrete spectrum of direct zigzag chain is empty while bending deformation leads to the appearance of non-empty discrete spectrum. In addition, the continuous spectrum has band structure. With the help of asymptotic study, we obtain the dependence of the spectrum structure on the geometrical and physical parameters of the system: zigzag angle, bend angle and coupling intensity.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>bending deformation</kwd><kwd>extension theory</kwd><kwd>transfer-matrix approach</kwd><kwd>discrete spectrum</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement>This work was partially financially supported by the Government of the Russian Federation (grant 074-U01), by grant MK-5161.2016.1 of the President of the Russian Federation, by grant 16-11-10330 of Russian Science Foundation.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Duclos P., Exner P., Turek O. On the spectrum of a bent chain graph. J. Phys. A: Math. 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