On the atomic photoeffect in non-relativistic QED

DOI10.1007/S00220-010-1121-9zbMATH Open1202.81211arXiv0910.1809OpenAlexW3099579783MaRDI QIDQ608913FDOQ608913

Authors: Heribert Zenk, M. Griesemer 

Publication date: 29 November 2010

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

Abstract: In this paper we present a mathematical analysis of the photoelectric effect for one-electron atoms in the framework of non-relativistic QED. We treat photo-ionization as a scattering process where in the remote past an atom in its ground state is targeted by one or several photons, while in the distant future the atom is ionized and the electron escapes to spacial infinity. Our main result shows that the ionization probability, to leading order in the fine-structure constant, $alpha$, is correctly given by formal time-dependent perturbation theory, and, moreover, that the dipole approximation produces an error of only sub-leading order in $alpha$. In this sense, the dipole approximation is rigorously justified.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1809

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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