Existence of ground state of an electron in the BDF approximation

DOI10.1142/S0129055X1450007XMaRDI QIDQ2925854zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jérémy Sok

Publication date 29 October 2014

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3830

zbMATH Keywords

BDF energyDirac operatorfixed point method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: The Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock (BDF) model allows to describe relativistic electrons interacting with the Dirac sea. It can be seen as a mean-field approximation of Quantum Electro-dynamics (QED) where photons are neglected. This paper treats the case of an electron together with the Dirac sea in the absence of any external field. Such a system is described by its one-body density matrix, an infinite rank, self-adjoint operator which is a compact pertubation of the negative spectral projector of the free Dirac operator. The parameters of the model are the coupling constant $alpha>0$ and the ultraviolet cut-off $Lambda>0$: we consider the subspace of squared integrable functions made of the functions whose Fourier transform vanishes outside the ball $B(0,La)$. We prove the existence of minimizers of the BDF-energy under the charge constraint of one electron and no external field provided that $alpha,L{a}^{-1}$ and $alphallo$ are sufficiently small. The interpretation is the following: in this regime the electron creates a polarization in the Dirac vacuum which allows it to bind. We then study the non-relativistic limit of such a system in which the speed of light tends to infinity (or equivalently $alpha$ tends to zero) with $alphallo$ fixed: after rescaling the electronic solution tends to the Choquard-Pekar ground state.

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