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Mean-field Dynamics for the Nelson Model with Fermions

Mathematical Physics 2019-10-08 v3 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We consider the Nelson model with ultraviolet cutoff, which describes the interaction between non-relativistic particles and a positive or zero mass quantized scalar field. We take the non-relativistic particles to obey Fermi statistics and discuss the time evolution in a mean-field limit of many fermions. In this case, the limit is known to be also a semiclassical limit. We prove convergence in terms of reduced density matrices of the many-body state to a tensor product of a Slater determinant with semiclassical structure and a coherent state, which evolve according to a fermionic version of the Schroedinger-Klein-Gordon equations.

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@article{arxiv.1807.06781,
  title  = {Mean-field Dynamics for the Nelson Model with Fermions},
  author = {Nikolai Leopold and Sören Petrat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06781},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

31 pages; v3: several minor improvements

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