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The dressed nonrelativistic electron in a magnetic field
Author(s) -
Amour Laurent,
Grébert Benoît,
Guillot JeanClaude
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
mathematical methods in the applied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-1476
pISSN - 0170-4214
DOI - 10.1002/mma.718
Subject(s) - hamiltonian (control theory) , ground state , electron , coupling constant , physics , magnetic field , photon , quantum electrodynamics , quantum mechanics , mathematical physics , mathematics , mathematical optimization
We consider a nonrelativistic electron interacting with a classical magnetic field pointing along the x 3 ‐axis and with a quantized electromagnetic field. When the interaction between the electron and photons is turned off, the electronic system is assumed to have a ground state of finite multiplicity. Because of the translation invariance along the x 3 ‐axis, we consider the reduced Hamiltonian associated with the total momentum along the x 3 ‐axis and, after introducing an ultraviolet cutoff and an infrared regularization, we prove that the reduced Hamiltonian has a ground state if the coupling constant and the total momentum along the x 3 ‐axis are sufficiently small. We determine the absolutely continuous spectrum of the reduced Hamiltonian and, when the ground state is simple, we prove that the renormalized mass of the dressed electron is greater than or equal to its bare one. We then deduce that the anomalous magnetic moment of the dressed electron is nonnegative. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.