The ionization problem

DOI10.4171/NEWS/118/6MaRDI QIDQ1995245zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. T. Nam

Publication date 23 February 2021

Published in European Mathematical Society Newsletter (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/NEWS/118/6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Nuclear physics (81V35) Atomic physics (81V45) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

Review text

Summary: ``How many electrons can a nucleus bind? is as old as quantum mechanics, but its rigorous answer based on the many-body Schrödinger equation remains a difficult challenge to mathematicians. Nevertheless, there has been remarkable progress in this problem in the past four decades. We will review the current understanding of the Schrödinger equation and then turn to simplified models where the problem has been solved satisfactorily. We will also discuss the connection to the liquid drop model, which is somewhat more classical, but no less interesting

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