Abstract
We consider non-interacting particles subject to a fixed external potential V and a self-generated magnetic field B. The total energy includes the field energy β f B2 and we minimize over all particle states and magnetic fields. In the case of spin-1/2 particles this minimization leads to the coupled Maxwell-Pauli system. The parameter β tunes the coupling strength between the field and the particles and it effectively determines the strength of the field. We investigate the stability and the semiclassical asymptotics, h → 0, of the total ground state energy E(β, h, V). The relevant parameter measuring the field strength in the semiclassical limit is k = βh. We are not able to give the exact leading order semiclassical asymptotics uniformly in k or even for fixed k. We do however give upper and lower bounds on E with almost matching dependence on k. In the simultaneous limit h → 0 and k → ∞ show that the standard non-magnetic Weyl asymptotics holds. The same result also holds for the spinless case, i.e. where the Pauli operator is replaced by the Schrödinger operator.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of the European Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2093-2113 |
| ISSN | 1435-9855 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |