On the number of electrons that a nucleus can bind

We review some results on the ionization conjecture, which says that a neutral atom can bind at most one or two extra electrons.Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of ICMP12, Aalborg, Denmark, August 6--11, 201

Bogoliubov correction to the mean-field dynamics of interacting bosons

We consider the dynamics of a large quantum system of $N$ identical bosons in 3D interacting via a two-body potential of the form $N^{3\beta-1} w(N^\beta(x-y))$. For fixed $0\leq \beta <1/3$ and large $N$, we obtain a norm approximation to the many-body evolution in the $N$-particle Hilbert space. The leading order behaviour of the dynamics is determined by Hartree theory while the second order is given by Bogoliubov theory.Comment: Final version, to appear in ATM

Fluctuations around Hartree states in the mean-field regime

We consider the dynamics of a large system of N interacting bosons in the mean-field regime where the interaction is of order 1/N. We prove that the fluctuations around the nonlinear Hartree state are generated by an effective quadratic Hamiltonian in Fock space, which is derived from Bogoliubov's approximation. We use a direct method in the N-particle space, which is different from the one based on coherent states in Fock space.Comment: Typos corrected. To appear in Amer. J. Mat

Ground states of large bosonic systems: The gross-pitaevskii limit revisited

We study the ground state of a dilute Bose gas in a scaling limit where the Gross-Pitaevskii functional emerges. This is a repulsive non-linear Schr\"odinger functional whose quartic term is proportional to the scattering length of the interparticle interaction potential. We propose a new derivation of this limit problem, with a method that bypasses some of the technical difficulties that previous derivations had to face. The new method is based on a combination of Dyson's lemma, the quantum de Finetti theorem and a second moment estimate for ground states of the effective Dyson Hamiltonian. It applies equally well to the case where magnetic fields or rotation are present