The energy of heavy atoms according to Brown and Ravenhall: the Scott correction

zbMATH Open1186.81137arXiv0805.4441MaRDI QIDQ845267FDOQ845267

Authors: R. L. Frank, S. Warzel, Heinz Siedentop 

Publication date: 27 January 2010

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider relativistic many-particle operators which - according to Brown and Ravenhall - describe the electronic states of heavy atoms. Their ground state energy is investigated in the limit of large nuclear charge and velocity of light. We show that the leading quasi-classical behavior given by the Thomas-Fermi theory is raised by a subleading correction, the Scott correction. Our result is valid for the maximal range of coupling constants, including the critical one. As a technical tool, a Sobolev-Gagliardo-Nirenberg-type inequality is established for the critical atomic Brown-Ravenhall operator. Moreover, we prove sharp upper and lower bound on the eigenvalues of the hydrogenic Brown-Ravenhall operator up to and including the critical coupling constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4441

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zbMATH Keywords

hydrogen atomBrown-Ravenhall operatorSobolev inequalityground-state energyScott correctionThomas-Fermi modelheavy atomsChandrasekhar modelrelativistic atomSchrödinger many-particle operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Atomic physics (81V45) Molecular physics (81V55)

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