Semiclassical Szegö limit of eigenvalue clusters for the hydrogen atom Zeeman Hamiltonian

DOI10.1007/S00023-017-0618-6zbMATH Open1380.81128arXiv1701.06866OpenAlexW2580602396MaRDI QIDQ1689429FDOQ1689429

Authors: M. Avendaño Camacho, Peter D. Hislop, C. Villegas-Blas 

Publication date: 12 January 2018

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a limiting eigenvalue distribution theorem (LEDT) for suitably scaled eigenvalue clusters around the discrete negative eigenvalues of the hydrogen atom Hamiltonian formed by the perturbation by a weak constant magnetic field. We study the hydrogen atom Zeeman Hamiltonian $H_V(h,B)=(1/2)(-ihmathbfabla-mathbfA(h){)}^2-|x{|}^{-1}$, defined on $L^2(R^3)$, in a constant magnetic field $mathbfB(h)=mathbfablaimesmathbfA(h)=(0,0,epsilon(h)B)$ in the weak field limit $epsilon(h)ightarrow0$ as $hightarrow0$. We consider the Planck's parameter $h$ taking values along the sequence $h=1/(N+1)$, with $N=0,1,2,ldots$, and $Nightarrowinfty$. We prove a semiclassical $Nightarrowinfty$ LEDT of the Szeg"o-type for the scaled eigenvalue shifts and obtain both ({�f i}) an expression involving the regularized classical Kepler orbits with energy $E=-1/2$ and ({�f ii}) a weak limit measure that involves the component $el{l}_3$ of the angular momentum vector in the direction of the magnetic field. This LEDT extends results of Szeg"o-type for eigenvalue clusters for bounded perturbations of the hydrogen atom to the Zeeman effect. The new aspect of this work is that the perturbation involves the unbounded, first-order, partial differential operator $w(h,B)=frac(epsilon(h)B{)}^{2}8(x_1^2+x_2^2)-fracepsilon(h)B2h{L}_3,$ where the operator $h{L}_3$ is the third component of the usual angular momentum operator and is the quantization of $el{l}_3$. The unbounded Zeeman perturbation is controlled using localization properties of both the hydrogen atom coherent states $Ps{i}_{alpha,N}$, and their derivatives $L_3(h)Ps{i}_{alpha,N}$, in the large quantum number regime $Nightarrowinfty$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06866

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Atomic physics (81V45)

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