Spectral Theory of the Fermi Polaron

Autor: Griesemer, Marcel, Linden, Ulrich
Rok vydání: 2018
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s00023-019-00796-1
Popis: The Fermi polaron refers to a system of free fermions interacting with an impurity particle by means of two-body contact forces. Motivated by the physicists' approach to this system, the present article develops a general mathematical framework for defining many-body Hamiltonians with two-body contact interactions by means of a renormalization procedure. In the case of the Fermi polaron the well-known TMS Hamiltonians are shown to emerge. For the Fermi polaron in a two-dimensional box a novel variational principle, established within the general framework, links the low-lying eigenvalues of the system to the zero-modes of a Birman-Schwinger type operator. It allows us to show, e.g., that the \emph{polaron}- and \emph{molecule} energies, computed in the physical literature, are indeed upper bounds to the ground state energy of the system.
Comment: 37 pages, updated introduction with reference to singular perturbation theory and new publications, several clarifying remarks. Accepted by AHP
Databáze: arXiv