Absence of binding in a mean-field approximation of quantum electrodynamics

arXiv1407.1600MaRDI QIDQ6252921FDOQ6252921

Publication date: 7 July 2014

Abstract: We study the Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock model which is a mean-field approximation of QED. It allows to consider relativistic electrons interacting with the Dirac sea. We study the system of two electrons in the vacuum: it has been shown in a previous work that an electron alone can bind due to the vacuum polarization, under some technical assumptions. Here we prove the absence of binding for the system of two electrons: the response of the vacuum is not sufficient to counterbalance the repulsion of the electrons.

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