Particle creation at a point source by means of interior-boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/S11040-018-9270-8zbMATH Open1396.81129arXiv1703.04476OpenAlexW2596934461WikidataQ129829502 ScholiaQ129829502MaRDI QIDQ1664459FDOQ1664459

Authors: Jonas Lampart, Julian Schmidt, Stefan Teufel, Roderich Tumulka 

Publication date: 27 August 2018

Published in: Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a way of defining quantum Hamiltonians involving particle creation and annihilation based on an interior-boundary condition (IBC) on the wave function, where the wave function is the particle-position representation of a vector in Fock space, and the IBC relates (essentially) the values of the wave function at any two configurations that differ only by the creation of a particle. Here we prove, for a model of particle creation at one or more point sources using the Laplace operator as the free Hamiltonian, that a Hamiltonian can indeed be rigorously defined in this way without the need for any ultraviolet regularization, and that it is self-adjoint. We prove further that introducing an ultraviolet cut-off (thus smearing out particles over a positive radius) and applying a certain known renormalization procedure (taking the limit of removing the cut-off while subtracting a constant that tends to infinity) yields, up to addition of a finite constant, the Hamiltonian defined by the IBC.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04476

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zbMATH Keywords

point interactionsself-adjoint Hamiltonianultraviolet cut-offparticle-position representationrenormalization in quantum field theoryself-adjoint extensions of the Laplace operatorultraviolet divergence problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35)

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