Relativistic Scott correction in self-generated magnetic fields
Abstract
We consider a large neutral molecule with total nuclear charge 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 , where denotes the fine structure constant. We are interested in the ground state energy in the simultaneous limit , such that is fixed. The leading term in the energy asymptotics is independent of , it is given by the Thomas-Fermi energy of order 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 . 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 , 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
Small typos corrected, new references added