Approach to ground state and time-independent photon bound for massless spin-boson models
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Publication:1944792
DOI10.1007/S00023-012-0190-ZzbMATH Open1266.81163arXiv1109.5582OpenAlexW3099516161MaRDI QIDQ1944792FDOQ1944792
Authors: W. De Roeck, Antti Kupiainen 
Publication date: 28 March 2013
Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: 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 was/is still missing, except in some special cases (massive photons, small perturbations of harmonic potentials). In this paper, we partially fill this gap by proving relaxation to an invariant state in the case where the atom is modelled 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, we show that the number of emitted photons remains bounded in time. We hope that these results bring a proof of asymptotic completeness within reach.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5582
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