Ground state energy of large atoms in a self-generated magnetic field

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0869-2MaRDI QIDQ625442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors László Erdős, J. P. Solovej

Publication date 17 February 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1816

zbMATH Keywords

Thomas-Fermi theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: We consider a large atom with nuclear charge $Z$ described by non-relativistic quantum mechanics with classical or quantized electromagnetic field. We prove that the absolute ground state energy, allowing for minimizing over all possible self-generated electromagnetic fields, is given by the non-magnetic Thomas-Fermi theory to leading order in the simultaneous $Zoinfty$, $alo0$ limit if $Za{l}^{2}leqkappa$ for some universal $kappa$, where $al$ is the fine structure constant.

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