Ground state for the relativistic one electron atom in a self-generated electromagnetic field

DOI10.1137/18M1222284MaRDI QIDQ5231306zbMATHFDO

Authors Vittorio Coti Zelati, Margherita Nolasco

Publication date 26 August 2019

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09328

zbMATH Keywords

variational methodsground stateDirac-Maxwell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35)

Abstract: We study the Dirac-Maxwell system coupled with an external potential of Coulomb type. We use the Foldy--Wouthuysen (unitary) transformation of the Dirac operator and its realization as an elliptic problem in the 4-dim half space $mathbb{R}_{+}^4$ with Neumann boundary condition. Using this approach we study the existence of a "ground state" solution.

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