Relativistic Scott correction in self-generated magnetic fields

DOI10.1063/1.3697417MaRDI QIDQ2872270zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors László Erdős, S. Fournais, J. P. Solovej

Publication date 14 January 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0673

zbMATH Keywords

Lieb-Thirring inequalitiesScott correctionThomas-Fermi energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Molecular physics (81V55)

Abstract: We consider a large neutral molecule with total nuclear charge $Z$ in a model with self-generated classical magnetic field and where the kinetic energy of the electrons is treated relativistically. To ensure stability, we assume that $Zalpha<2/pi$, where $alpha$ denotes the fine structure constant. We are interested in the ground state energy in the simultaneous limit $Zightarrowinfty$, $alphaightarrow0$ such that $kappa=Zalpha$ is fixed. The leading term in the energy asymptotics is independent of $kappa$, it is given by the Thomas-Fermi energy of order $Z^{7/3}$ and it is unchanged by including the self-generated magnetic field. We prove the first correction term to this energy, the so-called Scott correction of the form $S(alphaZ)Z^2$. The current paper extends the result of cite{SSS} on the Scott correction for relativistic molecules to include a self-generated magnetic field. Furthermore, we show that the corresponding Scott correction function $S$, first identified in cite{SSS}, is unchanged by including a magnetic field. We also prove new Lieb-Thirring inequalities for the relativistic kinetic energy with magnetic fields.

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