The Massless Nelson Hamiltonian and its Domain

Publication date 17 January 2019

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16)

Abstract: In the theory of point interactions, one is given a formal expression for a quantum mechanical Hamiltonian. The interaction terms of the Hamiltonian are singular: they can not be rigorously defined as a perturbation (in the operator or form sense) of an unperturbed free operator. A similar situation occurs in Quantum Field Theory, where it is known as the ultraviolet problem. Recently, it was shown that some of the tools used in the context of point interactions can be adapted to solve the problem of directly defining a Hamiltonian for the Nelson model. This model provides a well studied example of a bosonic quantum field that is linearly coupled to nonrelativistic particles. The novel method employs so called abstract interior-boundary conditions to explicitly characterise the action and the domain of the Hamiltonian without the need for a renormalisation procedure. Here, for the first time, the method of interior-boundary conditions is applied to the massless Nelson model. Neither ultraviolet nor infrared cutoffs are needed.

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