Born-Oppenheimer approximation for an atom in constant magnetic fields

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0458-9MaRDI QIDQ740063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 12 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02506

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: We obtain a reduction scheme for the study of the quantum evolution of an atom in constant magnetic fields using the method developed by Martinez, Nenciu and Sordoni based on the construction of almost invariant subspace. In Martinez-Sordoni cite{MaSo2} such a case is also studied but their reduced Hamiltonian includes the vector potential terms. In this paper, using the center of mass coordinates and constructing the almost invariant subspace different from theirs, we obtain the reduced Hamiltonian which does not include the vector potential terms. Using the reduced evolution we also obtain the asymptotic expantion of the evolution for a specific localized initial data, which verifies the straight motion of an atom in constatnt magnetic fields.

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