EXISTENCE OF GROUND STATES FOR NEGATIVE IONS AT THE BINDING THRESHOLD

DOI10.1142/S0129055X13500219zbMATH Open1302.81099arXiv1301.5370OpenAlexW3103949763MaRDI QIDQ5411751FDOQ5411751

Authors: Jacopo Bellazzini, R. L. Frank, E. H. Lieb, R. Seiringer 

Publication date: 25 April 2014

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

Abstract: As the nuclear charge Z is continuously decreased an N-electron atom undergoes a binding-unbinding transition at some critical Z_c. We investigate whether the electrons remain bound when Z=Z_c and whether the radius of the system stays finite as Z_c is approached. Existence of a ground state at Z_c is shown under the condition Z_c<N-K, where K is the maximal number of electrons that can be removed at Z_c without changing the ground state energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5370

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zbMATH Keywords

Coulomb systemthreshold eigenvaluemany-body Schrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Atomic physics (81V45)

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