Stability of atoms in the Brown-Ravenhall model

DOI10.1007/S00023-006-0264-XMaRDI QIDQ2498077zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Semjon A. Vugalter, Sergey Morozov

Publication date 11 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0511033

zbMATH Keywords

Brown-Ravenhall operatorexistence of eigenvaluesHVZ theoremrelativistic multi-partilce quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: We consider the Brown--Ravenhall model of a relativistic atom with N electrons and a nucleus of charge Z and prove the existence of an infinite number of discrete eigenvalues for N <= Z. As an intermediate result we prove a HVZ-type theorem for these systems.

Review text

The authors show for \(N\) electrons in the field of a nucleus of atomic number \(Z\) described according to \textit{G. E. Brown} and \textit{D. G. Ravenhall}, [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 208, 552--559 (1951; Zbl 0044.23209)], that the HVZ theorem holds and that for \(N\leq Z\) infinitely many eigenvalues exist below the essential spectrum. The method used, is different from the one used by \textit{D. H. Jakubaßa-Amundsen} [Doc. Math., J. DMV 10, 417--445 (2005; Zbl 1075.81026)] to prove the HVZ theorem for the same model. The difficulty of the proof lies in the non-locality of the involved positive energy projections of the free Dirac operator. This is overcome by using the exponential decay of its Schwartz kernel. An error in Lemma 3 has been corrected recently.

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