Van der Waals-London interaction of atoms with pseudo-relativistic kinetic energy

DOI10.2140/APDE.2022.15.1375arXiv1902.09222MaRDI QIDQ6314570FDOQ6314570

Authors: Jean-Marie Barbaroux, Michael C. Hartig, Dirk Hundertmark, Semjon A. Vugalter 

Publication date: 25 February 2019

Abstract: We consider a multiatomic system where the nuclei are assumed to be point charges at fixed positions. Particles interact via Coulomb potential and electrons have pseudo-relativistic kinetic energy. We prove the van der Waals-London law, which states that the interaction energy between neutral atoms decays as the sixth power of the distance $|D|$ between the atoms. We rigorously compute all the terms in the binding energy up to the order $|D{|}^{-9}$ with error term of order $mathcalO(|D{|}^{-10})$ . As intermediate steps we prove exponential decay of eigenfunctions of multiparticle Schr"odinger operators with permutation symmetry imposed by the Pauli principle and new estimates of the localization error.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Atomic physics (81V45)

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