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Atoms with bosonic "electrons" in strong magnetic fields

Mathematical Physics 2009-10-31 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study the ground state properties of an atom with nuclear charge ZZ and NN bosonic ``electrons'' in the presence of a homogeneous magnetic field BB. We investigate the mean field limit NN\to\infty with N/ZN/Z fixed, and identify three different asymptotic regions, according to BZ2B\ll Z^2, BZ2B\sim Z^2, and BZ2B\gg Z^2. In Region 1 standard Hartree theory is applicable. Region 3 is described by a one-dimensional functional, which is identical to the so-called Hyper-Strong functional introduced by Lieb, Solovej and Yngvason for atoms with fermionic electrons in the region BZ3B\gg Z^3; i.e., for very strong magnetic fields the ground state properties of atoms are independent of statistics. For Region 2 we introduce a general {\it magnetic Hartree functional}, which is studied in detail. It is shown that in the special case of an atom it can be restricted to the subspace of zero angular momentum parallel to the magnetic field, which simplifies the theory considerably. The functional reproduces the energy and the one-particle reduced density matrix for the full NN-particle ground state to leading order in NN, and it implies the description of the other regions as limiting cases.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0007007,
  title  = {Atoms with bosonic "electrons" in strong magnetic fields},
  author = {Bernhard Baumgartner and Robert Seiringer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0007007},
  year   = {2009}
}

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