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

DOI10.1137/18M1222284zbMATH Open1428.35421arXiv1810.09328MaRDI QIDQ5231306FDOQ5231306

Authors: Vittorio Coti Zelati, Margherita Nolasco 

Publication date: 26 August 2019

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

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.

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

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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)

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