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Approach to ground state and time-independent photon bound for massless spin-boson models
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    Approach to ground state and time-independent photon bound for massless spin-boson models (English)
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    28 March 2013
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    It is widely believed that an atom interacting with the electromagnetic field (with total initial energy well-below the ionization threshold) relaxes to its ground state while its excess energy is emitted as radiation. Hence, for large times, the state of the atom + field system should consist of the atom in its ground state, and a few free photons that travel off to spatial infinity. Mathematically, this picture is captured by the notion of asymptotic completeness. Despite some recent progress on the spectral theory of such systems, a proof of relaxation to the ground state and asymptotic completeness is still missing, except in some special cases (massive photons, small perturbations of harmonic potentials). In this paper, the authors partially fill this gap by proving relaxation to an invariant state in the case where the atom is modeled by a finite-level system. If the coupling to the field is sufficiently infrared-regular so that the coupled system admits a ground state, then this invariant state necessarily corresponds to the ground state. Assuming slightly more infrared regularity, it is shown that the number of emitted photons remains bounded in time.
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    Hamiltonian systems
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    spectral theory
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    quantum electrodynamics
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    asymptotic completeness
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