TY - JOUR
T1 - Binding energy for hydrogen-like atoms in the Nelson model without cutoffs
AU - Hainzl, Christian
AU - Hirokawa, Masao
AU - Spohn, Herbert
N1 - Funding Information:
C.H. acknowledges support through the European Union’s IHP network Analysis & Quantum HPRN-CT-2002-00277. M.H. is supported by JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 13640215. C.H. and H.S. are thankful to I. Catto for useful comments.
PY - 2005/3/15
Y1 - 2005/3/15
N2 - In the Nelson model particles interact through a scalar massless field. For hydrogen-like atoms there is a nucleus of infinite mass and charge Ze, Z > 0, fixed at the origin and an electron of mass m and charge e. This system forms a bound state with binding energy Ebin =me4Z2/8π2 to leading order in e. We investigate the radiative corrections to the binding energy and prove upper and lower bounds which imply that Ebin=me4 Z2/8π2 + c0e6 O(e7 ln e) with explicit coefficient c0 and independent of the ultraviolet cutoff. c0 can be computed by perturbation theory, which however is only formal since for the Nelson Hamiltonian the smallest eigenvalue sits exactly at the bottom of the continuous spectrum.
AB - In the Nelson model particles interact through a scalar massless field. For hydrogen-like atoms there is a nucleus of infinite mass and charge Ze, Z > 0, fixed at the origin and an electron of mass m and charge e. This system forms a bound state with binding energy Ebin =me4Z2/8π2 to leading order in e. We investigate the radiative corrections to the binding energy and prove upper and lower bounds which imply that Ebin=me4 Z2/8π2 + c0e6 O(e7 ln e) with explicit coefficient c0 and independent of the ultraviolet cutoff. c0 can be computed by perturbation theory, which however is only formal since for the Nelson Hamiltonian the smallest eigenvalue sits exactly at the bottom of the continuous spectrum.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jfa.2004.07.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jfa.2004.07.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:13644276893
SN - 0022-1236
VL - 220
SP - 424
EP - 459
JO - Journal of Functional Analysis
JF - Journal of Functional Analysis
IS - 2
ER -