A convexified energy functional for the Fermi-Amaldi correction

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2010.28.41MaRDI QIDQ977962zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein, Jerome A. Goldstein, Naima Naheed

Publication date 23 June 2010

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2010.28.41

zbMATH Keywords

constrained minimizationconvex minorantdegree theoryFermi-Amaldi correctionspin polarized systemThomas-Fermi theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order elliptic systems (35J47) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Molecular physics (81V55) Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10)

Review text

The authors consider a quantum mechanical system of \(N\) electrons in \({\mathbb R}^3\) interacting through Coulomb interaction, with \(N_1\) spin up and \(N_2\) spin down. They study the Thomas-Fermi energy with the Fermi-Amaldi correction. As this functional is not convex, they replace it by a convex minorant \(E\) and they prove that this modified energy has a unique minimizing density provided that \(N_1\) is close to \(N_2\).

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