The mean-field approximation in quantum electrodynamics: The no-photon case

DOI10.1002/CPA.20145zbMATH Open1113.81126arXivmath-ph/0503075OpenAlexW2154699785WikidataQ59255753 ScholiaQ59255753MaRDI QIDQ3437019FDOQ3437019

Authors: C. Hainzl, M. Lewin, J. P. Solovej 

Publication date: 11 May 2007

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the mean-field approximation of Quantum Electrodynamics, by means of a thermodynamic limit. The QED Hamiltonian is written in Coulomb gauge and does not contain any normal-ordering or choice of bare electron/positron subspaces. Neglecting photons, we define properly this Hamiltonian in a finite box $[-L/2;L/2{)}^3$, with periodic boundary conditions and an ultraviolet cut-off $Lambda$. We then study the limit of the ground state (i.e. the vacuum) energy and of the minimizers as $L$ goes to infinity, in the Hartree-Fock approximation. In case with no external field, we prove that the energy per volume converges and obtain in the limit a translation-invariant projector describing the free Hartree-Fock vacuum. We also define the energy per unit volume of translation-invariant states and prove that the free vacuum is the unique minimizer of this energy. In the presence of an external field, we prove that the difference between the minimum energy and the energy of the free vacuum converges as $L$ goes to infinity. We obtain in the limit the so-called Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock functional. The Hartree-Fock (polarized) vacuum is a Hilbert-Schmidt perturbation of the free vacuum and it minimizes the Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0503075

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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