THE GROUND STATE OF A MAGNETOPOLARON BOUND TO A COULOMB POTENTIAL

Series
Math Physics Seminar
Time
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 4:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Rohan Ghanta – SoM Georgia Tech
Organizer
Michael Loss
We shall consider a three-dimensional Quantum Field Theory model of an electron bound to a Coulomb impurity in a polar crystal and exposed to a homogeneous magnetic field of strength B > 0. Using an argument of Frank and Geisinger [Commun. Math. Phys. 338, 1-29 (2015)] we can see that as B → ∞ the ground- state energy is described by a one-dimensional minimization problem with a delta- function potential. Our contribution is to extend this description also to the ground- state wave function: we shall see that as B → ∞ its electron density in the direction of the magnetic field converges to the minimizer of the one-dimensional problem. Moreover, the minimizer can be evaluated explicitly.