New criteria for self-adjointness and its application to Dirac-Maxwell Hamiltonian

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0708-ZMaRDI QIDQ464337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shinichiro Futakuchi, Kouta Usui

Publication date 17 October 2014

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5296

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric operatorquantum electrodynamicsessentially self-adjoint operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We present a new theorem concerning a sufficient condition for a symmetric operator acting in a complex Hilbert space to be essentially self-adjoint. By applying the theorem, we prove that the Dirac Maxwell Hamiltonian, which describes a quantum system of a Dirac particle and a radiation field minimally interacting with each other, is essentially self-adjoint. Our theorem covers the case where the Dirac particle is in the Coulomb type potential.

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