The ground-state energy of heavy atoms according to Brown and Ravenhall: absence of relativistic effects in leading order

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/33/010MaRDI QIDQ5485530zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roch Cassanas, Heinz Siedentop

Publication date 30 August 2006

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0603079

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Atomic physics (81V45) Molecular physics (81V55)

Abstract: It is shown that the ground state energy of heavy atoms is, to leading order, given by the non-relativistic Thomas-Fermi energy. The proof is based on the relativistic Hamiltonian of Brown and Ravenhall which is derived from quantum electrodynamics yielding energy levels correctly up to order $alph{a}^2$Ry.

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