Existence of ground states of hydrogen-like atoms in relativistic quantum electrodynamics. II. The no-pair operator

DOI10.1063/1.3658863zbMATH Open1273.81091arXiv1005.2109OpenAlexW3101211778MaRDI QIDQ2853577FDOQ2853577

Authors: Martin Könenberg, Oliver Matte, E. Stockmeyer 

Publication date: 16 October 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a hydrogen-like atom in a quantized electromagnetic field which is modeled by means of a no-pair operator acting in the positive spectral subspace of the free Dirac operator minimally coupled to the quantized vector potential. We prove that the infimum of the spectrum of the no-pair operator is an evenly degenerate eigenvalue. In particular, we show that the bottom of its spectrum is strictly less than its ionization threshold. These results hold true, for arbitrary values of the fine-structure constant and the ultra-violet cut-off and for all Coulomb coupling constants less than the critical one of the Brown-Ravenhall model. For Coulomb coupling constants larger than the critical one, we show that the quadratic form of the no-pair operator is unbounded below. Along the way we discuss the domains and operator cores of the semi-relativistic Pauli-Fierz and no-pair operators, for Coulomb coupling constants less than or equal to the critical ones.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2109

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zbMATH Keywords

no-pair operatorsemi-relativistic Pauli-Fierz operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Atomic physics (81V45) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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