The ionization conjecture in Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizsäcker theory

DOI10.1002/CPA.21717MaRDI QIDQ4604587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. L. Frank, P. T. Nam, Hanne van den Bosch

Publication date 2 March 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07355, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/77090/

zbMATH Keywords

nuclear potentialionization conjectureThomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizsäcker theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

Abstract: We prove that in Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizs"acker theory, a nucleus of charge $Z>0$ can bind at most $Z+C$ electrons, where $C$ is a universal constant. This result is obtained through a comparison with Thomas-Fermi theory which, as a by-product, gives bounds on the screened nuclear potential and the radius of the minimizer. A key ingredient of the proof is a novel technique to control the particles in the exterior region, which also applies to the liquid drop model with a nuclear background potential.

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