The large-Z Behavior of pseudorelativistic atoms

DOI10.1063/1.1897645zbMATH Open1110.81162arXivmath-ph/0408056OpenAlexW3102321012MaRDI QIDQ3438403FDOQ3438403

Authors: T.Østergaard Sørensen 

Publication date: 16 May 2007

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

Abstract: In this paper we study the large-Z behaviour of the ground state energy of atoms with electrons having relativistic kinetic energy sqrt(p^2c^2+m^2c^4)-mc^2. We prove that to leading order in Z the energy is the same as in the non-relativistic case, given by (non-relativistic) Thomas-Fermi theory. For the problem to make sense, we keep the product Z*alpha fixed (here alpha is Sommerfeld's fine structure constant), and smaller than, or equal to, 2/pi, which means that as Z tends to infinity, alpha tends to zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0408056

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Atomic physics (81V45)

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