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Relativistic Scott correction in self-generated magnetic fields

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-03 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We consider a large neutral molecule with total nuclear charge ZZ 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 Zα<2/πZ \alpha < 2/\pi, where α\alpha denotes the fine structure constant. We are interested in the ground state energy in the simultaneous limit ZZ \rightarrow \infty, α0\alpha \rightarrow 0 such that κ=Zα\kappa=Z \alpha is fixed. The leading term in the energy asymptotics is independent of κ\kappa, it is given by the Thomas-Fermi energy of order Z7/3Z^{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(αZ)Z2S(\alpha Z) 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 SS, 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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@article{arxiv.1112.0673,
  title  = {Relativistic Scott correction in self-generated magnetic fields},
  author = {Laszlo Erdos and Soren Fournais and Jan Philip Solovej},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.0673},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Small typos corrected, new references added

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