Coulomb scattering in the massless Nelson model. I. Foundations of two-electron scattering

DOI10.1007/S10955-013-0857-YMaRDI QIDQ2016536zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. Dybalski, A. Pizzo

Publication date 20 June 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5001, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/81037

zbMATH Keywords

Coulomb scatteringHaag-Ruelle scattering theorymassless Nelson model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We construct two-electron scattering states and verify their tensor product structure in the infrared-regular massless Nelson model. The proof follows the lines of Haag-Ruelle scattering theory: Scattering state approximants are defined with the help of two time-dependent renormalized creation operators of the electrons acting on the vacuum. They depend on ground state wave functions of the (single-electron) fiber Hamiltonians with infrared cut-off. Convergence of these approximants as $toinfty$ is shown with the help of Cook's method combined with a non-stationary phase argument. Removal of the infrared cut-off in the limit $toinfty$ requires sharp estimates on the derivatives of these ground state wave functions w.r.t. electron and photon momenta, with mild dependence on the infrared cut-off. These key estimates, which carry information about the localization of electrons in space, are obtained in a companion paper with the help of iterative analytic perturbation theory. Our results hold in the weak coupling regime.

Review text

Numerous works have been done to understand scattering of light and mass in the setting of non-relativistic QED in the last two decades. Their results have established mathematical frameworks for the scattering theories such as Compton-Rayleigh scattering theory for one electron and Haag-Ruelle scattering theory for multiple electrons. For the case involving one electron and many photons, the construction of scattering states are available both in the infrared-regular and infrared-singular situations. However, for the case of collisions of multiple electrons, a complete description of scattering states is given only in the presence of a fixed infrared cut-off. This paper is intended to provide a construction of two-electron scattering states in the infrared-regular massless Nelson model without an infrared cut-off and verify their tensor product structure in the model.

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