Asymptotic completeness for Rayleigh scattering

DOI10.1007/S00023-002-8614-9zbMATH Open1008.81101arXivmath-ph/0103048OpenAlexW2039992128MaRDI QIDQ696359FDOQ696359

B. Schlein, Jürg Fröhlich, M. Griesemer

Publication date: 12 September 2002

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

Abstract: It is expected that the state of an atom or molecule, initially put into an excited state with an energy below the ionization threshold, relaxes to a groundstate by spontaneous emission of photons which propagate to spatial infinity. In this paper, this picture is established for a large class of models of non-relativistic atoms and molecules coupled to the quantized radiation field, but with the simplifying feature that an (arbitrarily tiny, but positive) infrared cutoff is imposed on the interaction Hamiltonian. This result relies on a proof of asymptotic completeness for Rayleigh scattering of light on an atom. We establish asymptotic completeness of Rayleigh scattering for a class of model Hamiltonians with the features that the atomic Hamiltonian has point spectrum coexisting with absolutely continuous spectrum, and that either an infrared cutoff is imposed on the interaction Hamiltonian or photons are treated as massive particles. We show that, for models of massless photons, the spectrum of the Hamiltonian strictly below the ionization threshold is purely continuous, except for the groundstate energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0103048

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zbMATH Keywords

excited stateatom or moleculeatomic radiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum optics (81V80) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Atomic physics (81V45)

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