SEMICLASSICAL MOTION OF DRESSED ELECTRONS

DOI10.1142/S0129055X02001077zbMATH Open1037.81098arXivmath-ph/0010009OpenAlexW2047308421MaRDI QIDQ4420428FDOQ4420428

Authors: Stefan Teufel, Herbert Spohn 

Publication date: 17 August 2003

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

Abstract: We consider an electron coupled to the quantized radiation field and subject to a slowly varying electrostatic potential. We establish that over sufficiently long times radiation effects are negligible and the dressed electron is governed by an effective one-particle Hamiltonian. In the proof only a few generic properties of the full Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonian H_PF enter. Most importantly, H_PF must have an isolated ground state band for |p| < p_c <= infty with p the total momentum and p_c indicating that the ground state band may terminate. This structure demands a local approximation theorem, in the sense that the one- particle approximation holds until the semi-classical dynamics violates |p|<p_c. Within this framework we prove an abstract Hilbert space theorem which uses no additional information on the Hamiltonian away from the band of interest. Our result is applicable to other time-dependent semi-classical problems. We discuss semi-classical distributions for the effective one-particle dynamics and show how they can be translated to the full dynamics by our results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0010009

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zbMATH Keywords

Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonianisolated ground state bandsemiclassical distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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