Van der Waals-London interaction of atoms with pseudo-relativistic kinetic energy

Autor: Barbaroux, Jean-Marie, Hartig, Michael, Hundertmark, Dirk, Vugalter, Semjon
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Analysis & PDE 15 (2022) 1375-1428
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.2140/apde.2022.15.1375
Popis: We consider a multiatomic system where the nuclei are assumed to be point charges at fixed positions. Particles interact via Coulomb potential and electrons have pseudo-relativistic kinetic energy. We prove the van der Waals-London law, which states that the interaction energy between neutral atoms decays as the sixth power of the distance $|D|$ between the atoms. We rigorously compute all the terms in the binding energy up to the order $|D|^{-9}$ with error term of order $\mathcal{O}(|D|^{-10})$ . As intermediate steps we prove exponential decay of eigenfunctions of multiparticle Schr\"odinger operators with permutation symmetry imposed by the Pauli principle and new estimates of the localization error.
Databáze: arXiv