Quantitative estimates on the binding energy for hydrogen in non-relativistic QED

DOI10.1007/S00023-010-0064-1MaRDI QIDQ630034zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Marie Barbaroux, Thomas Chen, Vitali Vougalter, Semjon A. Vugalter

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1854

zbMATH Keywords

binding energyhydrogen-like atomPauli-Fierz HamiltonianQED

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: In this paper, we determine the exact expression for the hydrogen binding energy in the Pauli-Fierz model up to the order $O(alph{a}^{5}logalph{a}^{-1})$, where $alpha$ denotes the finestructure constant, and prove rigorous bounds on the remainder term of the order $o(alph{a}^{5}logalph{a}^{-1})$. As a consequence, we prove that the binding energy is not a real analytic function of $alpha$, and verify the existence of logarithmic corrections to the expansion of the ground state energy in powers of $alpha$, as conjectured in the recent literature.

Review text

It is well-known that the binding energy of the non-relativistic hydrogen-like atom composed of an electron and the nucleus of charge \(Z\) and described by the Schrödinger equation, that is the energy required to remove the electron from the atom to infinity, amounts to \((Z \alpha)^2/4\) where \(\alpha\) is the fine structure constant. It is shown that within the non-relativistic QED, the binding energy of the electron of the hydrogen-like atom, which interacts with the quantized electromagnetic field and is described by the Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonian, is expressed as the expansion series \(\alpha^2/4 + \lambda_1 \alpha^3 + \lambda_2 \alpha^4 + \lambda_3 \alpha^5 \log (\alpha^{-1}) + o(\alpha^5 \log (\alpha^{-1}))\) where \(\lambda_i, i = 1,2,3\) are constants and \(\lambda_1\) is positive. The latter formula particularly implies that the binding energy of the electron is not analytic in \(\alpha\).

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