Ground state energy of the two-component charged bose gas

Elliott H. Lieb, Jan Philip Solovej

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Abstract

We continue the study of the two-component charged Bose gas initiated by Dyson in 1967. He showed that the ground state energy for N particles is at least as negative as -CN7/5 for large N and this power law was verified by a lower bound found by Conlon, Lieb and Yau in 1988. Dyson conjectured that the exact constant C was given by a mean-field minimization problem that used, as input, Foldy's calculation (using Bogolubov's 1947 formalism) for the one-component gas. Earlier we showed that Foldy's calculation is exact insofar as a lower bound of his form was obtained. In this paper we do the same thing for Dyson's conjecture. The two-component case is considerably more difficult because the gas is very non-homogeneous in its ground state.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)485-534
Number of pages50
JournalCommunications In Mathematical Physics
Volume252
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2004

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

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