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Quantum Point Charges Interacting with Quasi-classical Electromagnetic Fields

Mathematical Physics 2025-03-19 v1 Functional Analysis math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study effective models describing systems of quantum particles interacting with quantized (electromagnetic) fields in the quasi-classical regime, i.e., when the field's state shows a large average number of excitations. Once the field's degrees of freedom are traced out on factorized states, the reduced dynamics of the particles' system is described by an effective Schr\"{o}dinger operator keeping track of the field's state. We prove that, under suitable assumptions on the latter, such effective models are well-posed even if the particles are point-like, that is no ultraviolet cut-off is imposed on the interaction with quantum fields.

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@article{arxiv.2407.18600,
  title  = {Quantum Point Charges Interacting with Quasi-classical Electromagnetic Fields},
  author = {S. Breteaux and M. Correggi and M. Falconi and J. Faupin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.18600},
  year   = {2025}
}

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24 pages

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