Rigorous results concerning the Holstein--Hubbard model

The Holstein model has been widely accepted as a model comprising electrons interacting with phonons; analysis of this model's ground states was accomplished two decades ago. However, the results were obtained without completely taking repulsive Coulomb interactions into account. Recent progress has made it possible to treat such interactions rigorously; in this paper, we study the Holstein--Hubbard model with repulsive Coulomb interactions. The ground state properties of the model are investigated; in particular, the ground state of the Hamiltonian is proven to be unique for an even number of electrons on a bipartite connected lattice. In addition, we provide a rigorous upper bound on charge susceptibility.Comment: 42 pages, Title changed, Major improvements, to appear, Annales Henri Poincar

Quantum Griffiths inequalities

We present a general framework of Griffiths inequalities for quantum systems. Our approach is based on operator inequalities associated with self-dual cones and provides a consistent viewpoint of the Griffiths inequality. As examples, we discuss the quantum Ising model, quantum rotor model, Bose--Hubbard model, Hubbard model, and spin-1/2 quantum Heisenberg model. We present a model-independent structure that governs the correlation inequalities.Comment: Revised and improved version, to appear in J. Stat. Phy

Note on the Retarded van der Waals Potential within the Dipole Approximation

We examine the dipole approximated Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonians of the nonrelativistic QED. We assume that the Coulomb potential of the nuclei together with the Coulomb interaction between the electrons can be approximated by harmonic potentials. By an exact diagonalization method, we prove that the binding energy of the two hydrogen atoms behaves as $R^{-7}$, provided that the distance between atoms $R$ is sufficiently large. We employ the Feynman's representation of the quantized radiation fields which enables us to diagonalize Hamiltonians, rigorously. Our result supports the famous conjecture by Casimir and Polder

Spectral Analysis of the Semi-relativistic Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonian

We consider a charged particle, spin 1/2, with relativistic kinetic energy and minimally coupled to the quantized Maxwell field. Since the total momentum is conserved, the Hamiltonian admits a fiber decomposition as $H(P)$, P\in \BbbR^3. We study the spectrum of $H(P)$. In particular we prove that, for non-zero photon mass, the ground state is exactly two-fold degenerate and separated by a gap, uniformly in $P$, from the rest of the spectrum.Comment: 32 page

Stability of good quantum numbers in ground states

Let $H$ be a self-adjoint operator, bounded from below and let $O$ be a bounded self-adjoint operator with purely discrete spectrum. Suppose that (i) $E(H)=\inf \mathrm{spec}(H)$ is a simple eigenvalue, and (ii) $H$ strongly commutes with $O$. Let $\psi_H$ be the eigenvector associated with $E(H)$. By the assumptions (i) and (ii), $\psi_H$ is an eigenvector of $O$: $O\psi_H=\mu(H)\psi_H$. In the context of quantum mechanics, $\mu(H)$ is called a good quantum number. In this note, we examine the stability of $\mu(H)$ under perturbations of $H$ from a viewpoint of the order theory.Comment: Typos corrected, 13 page