A variational study of some hadron bag models

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong interaction and accounts for the internal structure of hadrons. Physicists introduced phe- nomenological models such as the M.I.T. bag model, the bag approximation and the soliton bag model to study the hadronic properties. We prove, in this paper, the existence of excited state solutions in the symmetric case and of a ground state solution in the non-symmetric case for the soliton bag and the bag approximation models thanks to the concentration compactness method. We show that the energy functionals of the bag approximation model are Gamma -limits of sequences of soliton bag model energy functionals for the ground and excited state problems. The pre- compactness, up to translation, of the sequence of ground state solutions associated with the soliton bag energy functionals in the non-symmetric case is obtained combining the Gamma -convergence theory and the concentration-compactness method. Finally, we give a rigorous proof of the original derivation of the M.I.T. bag equations done by Chodos, Jaffe, Johnson, Thorn and Weisskopf via a limit of bag approximation ground state solutions in the spherical case. The supersymmetry property of the Dirac operator is the key point in many of our arguments

Self-Adjointness of Dirac Operators with Infinite Mass Boundary Conditions in Sectors

This paper deals with the study of the two-dimensional Dirac operatorwith infinite mass boundary condition in a sector. We investigate the question ofself-adjointness depending on the aperture of the sector: when the sector is convexit is self-adjoint on a usual Sobolev space whereas when the sector is non-convexit has a family of self-adjoint extensions parametrized by a complex number of theunit circle. As a byproduct of this analysis we are able to give self-adjointnessresults on polygones. We also discuss the question of distinguished self-adjointextensions and study basic spectral properties of the operator in the sector

Uniformly accurate time-splitting methods for the semiclassical linear Schr{\"o}dinger equation

This article is devoted to the construction of numerical methods which remain insensitive to the smallness of the semiclassical parameter for the linear Schr{\"o}dinger equation in the semiclassical limit. We specifically analyse the convergence behavior of the first-order splitting. Our main result is a proof of uniform accuracy. We illustrate the properties of our methods with simulations

Uniformly accurate time-splitting methods for the semiclassical Schrödinger equationPart 1 : Construction of the schemes and simulations

This article is devoted to the construction of new numerical methods for the semiclassical Schrödinger equation. A phase-amplitude reformulation of the equation is described where the Planck constant epsilon is not a singular parameter. This allows to build splitting schemes whose accuracy is spectral in space, of up to fourth order in time, and independent of epsilon before the caustics. The second-order method additionally preserves the L^2-norm of the solution just as the exact flow does. In this first part of the paper, we introduce the basic splitting scheme in the nonlinear case, reveal our strategy for constructing higher-order methods, and illustrate their properties with simulations. In the second part, we shall prove a uniform convergence result for the first-order splitting scheme applied to the linear Schrödinger equation with a potential

Existence of nodal solutions for Dirac equations with singular nonlinearities

We prove, by a shooting method, the existence of infinitely many solutions of the form $\psi(x^0,x) = e^{-i\Omega x^0}\chi(x)$ of the nonlinear Dirac equation {equation*} i\underset{\mu=0}{\overset{3}{\sum}} \gamma^\mu \partial_\mu \psi- m\psi - F(\bar{\psi}\psi)\psi = 0 {equation*} where $\Omega>m>0,$ $\chi$ is compactly supported and \[F(x) = \{{array}{ll} p|x|^{p-1} & \text{if} |x|>0 0 & \text{if} x=0 {array}.] with $p\in(0,1),$ under some restrictions on the parameters $p$ and $\Omega.$ We study also the behavior of the solutions as $p$ tends to zero to establish the link between these equations and the M.I.T. bag model ones

Boundary states of the Robin magnetic Laplacian

This article tackles the spectral analysis of the Robin Laplacian on a smooth bounded two-dimensional domain in the presence of a constant magnetic field. In the semiclassical limit, a uniform description of the spectrum located between the Landau levels is obtained. The corresponding eigenfunctions, called edge states, are exponentially localized near the boundary. By means of a microlocal dimensional reduction, our unifying approach allows on the one hand to derive a very precise Weyl law and a proof of quantum magnetic oscillations for excited states, and on the other hand to refine simultaneously old results about the low-lying eigenvalues in the Robin case and recent ones about edge states in the Dirichlet case

On the Dirac bag model in strong magnetic fields

In this work we study two-dimensional Dirac operators on bounded domains coupled to a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. We focus on the MIT bag boundary condition and provide accurate asymptotic estimates for the low-lying (positive and negative) energies in the limit of a strong magnetic field

On the semiclassical spectrum of the Dirichlet-Pauli operator

International audienceThis paper is devoted to semiclassical estimates of the eigenvalues of the Pauli operator on a bounded open set whose boundary carries Dirichlet conditions. Assuming that the magnetic field is positive and a few generic conditions, we establish the simplicity of the eigenvalues and provide accurate asymptotic estimates involving Segal-Bargmann and Hardy spaces associated with the magnetic field

Variational and topological methods for the study of nonlinear models from relativistic quantum mechanics.

Cette thèse porte sur l'étude de modèles non linéaires issus de la mécanique quantique relativiste.Dans la première partie, nous démontrons à l'aide d'une méthode de tir l'existence d'une infinité de solutions d'équations de Dirac non linéaires provenant d'un modèle de hadrons et d'un modèle de la physique des noyaux.Dans la seconde partie, nous prouvons par des méthodes variationnelles l'existence d'un état fondamental et d'états excités pour deux modèles de la physique des hadrons. Par la suite, nous étudions la transition de phase reliant les deux modèles grâce à la Gamma-convergence.La dernière partie est consacrée à l'étude d'un autre modèle de hadrons dans lequel les fonctions d'onde des quarks sont parfaitement localisées. Nous énonçons quelques résultats préliminaires que nous avons obtenus.This thesis is devoted to the study of nonlinear models from relativistic quantum mechanics.In the first part, we show thanks to a shooting method, the existence of infinitely many solutions of nonlinear Dirac equations of two models from the physics of hadrons and the physics of the nucleus.In the second part, we prove thanks to variational methods the existence of a ground state and excited states for two models of the physics of hadrons. Next, we study the phase transition which links the models thanks to the $\Gamma$-convergence.The last part is devoted to the study of another model from the physics of hadrons in which the wave functions are perfectly confined. We give some preliminary results