28 research outputs found
Ground State H-Atom in Born-Infeld Theory
Within the context of Born-Infeld (BI) nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) we
revisit the non-relativistic, spinless H-atom. The pair potential computed from
the Born-Infeld equations is approximated by the Morse type potential with
remarkable fit over the critical region where the convergence of both the short
and long distance expansions slows down dramatically. The Morse potential is
employed to determine both the ground state energy of the electron and the BI
parameter.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear in Foundation of Physic
Misleading signposts along the de Broglie-Bohm road to quantum mechanics
Eighty years after de Broglie's, and a little more than half a century after
Bohm's seminal papers, the de Broglie--Bohm theory (a.k.a. Bohmian mechanics),
which is presumably the simplest theory which explains the orthodox quantum
mechanics formalism, has reached an exemplary state of conceptual clarity and
mathematical integrity. No other theory of quantum mechanics comes even close.
Yet anyone curious enough to walk this road to quantum mechanics is soon being
confused by many misleading signposts that have been put up, and not just by
its detractors, but unfortunately enough also by some of its proponents.
This paper outlines a road map to help navigate ones way.Comment: Dedicated to Jeffrey Bub on occasion of his 65th birthday. Accepted
for publication in Foundations of Physics. A "slip of pen" in the
bibliography has been corrected -- thanks go to Oliver Passon for catching
it
The Mean-Field Limit for a Regularized Vlasov-Maxwell Dynamics
The present work establishes the mean-field limit of a N-particle system
towards a regularized variant of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system,
following the work of Braun-Hepp [Comm. in Math. Phys. 56 (1977), 101-113] and
Dobrushin [Func. Anal. Appl. 13 (1979), 115-123] for the Vlasov-Poisson system.
The main ingredients in the analysis of this system are (a) a kinetic
formulation of the Maxwell equations in terms of a distribution of
electromagnetic potential in the momentum variable, (b) a regularization
procedure for which an analogue of the total energy - i.e. the kinetic energy
of the particles plus the energy of the electromagnetic field - is conserved
and (c) an analogue of Dobrushin's stability estimate for the
Monge-Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance between two solutions of the regularized
Vlasov-Poisson dynamics adapted to retarded potentials.Comment: 34 page
Monotonicity of quantum ground state energies: Bosonic atoms and stars
The N-dependence of the non-relativistic bosonic ground state energy is
studied for quantum N-body systems with either Coulomb or Newton interactions.
The Coulomb systems are "bosonic atoms," with their nucleus fixed, and the
Newton systems are "bosonic stars". In either case there exists some third
order polynomial in N such that the ratio of the ground state energy to the
respective polynomial grows monotonically in N. Some applications of these new
monotonicity results are discussed
On the Quasi-Linear Elliptic PDE in Physics and Geometry
It is shown that for each finite number of Dirac measures supported at points
in three-dimensional Euclidean space, with given amplitudes , there
exists a unique real-valued Lipschitz function , vanishing at infinity,
which distributionally solves the quasi-linear elliptic partial differential
equation of divergence form
. Moreover, is real analytic away from the . The result
can be interpreted in at least two ways: (a) for any number of point charges of
arbitrary magnitude and sign at prescribed locations in three-dimensional
Euclidean space there exists a unique electrostatic field which satisfies the
Maxwell-Born-Infeld field equations smoothly away from the point charges and
vanishes as ; (b) for any number of integral mean curvatures
assigned to locations there exists a unique asymptotically flat, almost
everywhere space-like maximal slice with point defects of Minkowski spacetime,
having lightcone singularities over the but being smooth otherwise, and
whose height function vanishes as . No struts between the point
singularities ever occur.Comment: This is the preprint of the version published in 2012 in Commun.
Math. Phys. PLUS an errata which has been accepted 08/13/2018 for publication
in Commun. Math. Phy
The Vlasov limit and its fluctuations for a system of particles which interact by means of a wave field
In two recent publications [Commun. PDE, vol.22, p.307--335 (1997), Commun.
Math. Phys., vol.203, p.1--19 (1999)], A. Komech, M. Kunze and H. Spohn studied
the joint dynamics of a classical point particle and a wave type generalization
of the Newtonian gravity potential, coupled in a regularized way. In the
present paper the many-body dynamics of this model is studied. The Vlasov
continuum limit is obtained in form equivalent to a weak law of large numbers.
We also establish a central limit theorem for the fluctuations around this
limit.Comment: 68 pages. Smaller corrections: two inequalities in sections 3 and two
inequalities in section 4, and definition of a Banach space in appendix A1.
Presentation of LLN and CLT in section 4.3 improved. Notation improve
Order and Chaos in some Trigonometric Series: Curious Adventures of a Statistical Mechanic
This paper tells the story how a MAPLE-assisted quest for an interesting
undergraduate problem in trigonometric series led some "amateurs" to the
discovery that the one-parameter family of deterministic trigonometric series
\pzcS_p: t\mapsto \sum_{n\in\Nset}\sin(n^{-{p}}t), , exhibits both order
and apparent chaos, and how this has prompted some professionals to offer their
expert insights. It is proved that \pzcS_p(t) =
\alpha_p\rm{sign}(t)|t|^{1/{p}}+O(|t|^{1/{(p+1)}})\;\forall\;t\in\Rset, with
explicitly computed constant . Experts' commentaries are reproduced
stating the fluctuations of \pzcS_p(t) - \alpha_p{\rm{sign}}(t)|t|^{1/{p}}
are presumably not Gaussian. Inspired by a central limit type theorem of Marc
Kac, a well-motivated conjecture is formulated to the effect that the
fluctuations of the -th partial sum of \pzcS_p(t),
when properly scaled, do converge in distribution to a standard Gaussian when
, though --- provided that is chosen so that the frequencies
\{n^{-p}\}_{n\in\Nset} are rationally linear independent; no conjecture has
been forthcoming for rationally dependent \{n^{-p}\}_{n\in\Nset}. Moreover,
following other experts' tip-offs, the interesting relationship of the
asymptotics of \pzcS_p(t) to properties of the Riemann function is
exhibited using the Mellin transform.Comment: Based on the invited lecture with the same title delivered by the
author on Dec.19, 2011 at the 106th Statistical Mechanics Meeting at Rutgers
University in honor of Michael Fisher, Jerry Percus, and Ben Widom. (19
figures, colors online). Comments of three referees included. Conjecture 1
revised. Accepted for publication in J. Stat. Phy
Ground state at high density
Weak limits as the density tends to infinity of classical ground states of
integrable pair potentials are shown to minimize the mean-field energy
functional. By studying the latter we derive global properties of high-density
ground state configurations in bounded domains and in infinite space. Our main
result is a theorem stating that for interactions having a strictly positive
Fourier transform the distribution of particles tends to be uniform as the
density increases, while high-density ground states show some pattern if the
Fourier transform is partially negative. The latter confirms the conclusion of
earlier studies by Vlasov (1945), Kirzhnits and Nepomnyashchii (1971), and
Likos et al. (2007). Other results include the proof that there is no Bravais
lattice among high-density ground states of interactions whose Fourier
transform has a negative part and the potential diverges or has a cusp at zero.
We also show that in the ground state configurations of the penetrable sphere
model particles are superposed on the sites of a close-packed lattice.Comment: Note adde
A dynamical classification of the range of pair interactions
We formalize a classification of pair interactions based on the convergence
properties of the {\it forces} acting on particles as a function of system
size. We do so by considering the behavior of the probability distribution
function (PDF) P(F) of the force field F in a particle distribution in the
limit that the size of the system is taken to infinity at constant particle
density, i.e., in the "usual" thermodynamic limit. For a pair interaction
potential V(r) with V(r) \rightarrow \infty) \sim 1/r^a defining a {\it
bounded} pair force, we show that P(F) converges continuously to a well-defined
and rapidly decreasing PDF if and only if the {\it pair force} is absolutely
integrable, i.e., for a > d-1, where d is the spatial dimension. We refer to
this case as {\it dynamically short-range}, because the dominant contribution
to the force on a typical particle in this limit arises from particles in a
finite neighborhood around it. For the {\it dynamically long-range} case, i.e.,
a \leq d-1, on the other hand, the dominant contribution to the force comes
from the mean field due to the bulk, which becomes undefined in this limit. We
discuss also how, for a \leq d-1 (and notably, for the case of gravity, a=d-2)
P(F) may, in some cases, be defined in a weaker sense. This involves a
regularization of the force summation which is generalization of the procedure
employed to define gravitational forces in an infinite static homogeneous
universe. We explain that the relevant classification in this context is,
however, that which divides pair forces with a > d-2 (or a < d-2), for which
the PDF of the {\it difference in forces} is defined (or not defined) in the
infinite system limit, without any regularization. In the former case dynamics
can, as for the (marginal) case of gravity, be defined consistently in an
infinite uniform system.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure; significantly shortened and focussed, additional
references, version to appear in J. Stat. Phy