Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1995-02-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
57 pages, Plain tex, 5 figures in separate uufile
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.51.10646
The quantum mechanical ground state of a 2D $N$-electron system in a confining potential $V(x)=Kv(x)$ ($K$ is a coupling constant) and a homogeneous magnetic field $B$ is studied in the high density limit $N\to\infty$, $K\to \infty$ with $K/N$ fixed. It is proved that the ground state energy and electronic density can be computed {\it exactly} in this limit by minimizing simple functionals of the density. There are three such functionals depending on the way $B/N$ varies as $N\to\infty$: A 2D Thomas-Fermi (TF) theory applies in the case $B/N\to 0$; if $B/N\to{\rm const.}\neq 0$ the correct limit theory is a modified $B$-dependent TF model, and the case $B/N\to\infty$ is described by a ``classical'' continuum electrostatic theory. For homogeneous potentials this last model describes also the weak coupling limit $K/N\to 0$ for arbitrary $B$. Important steps in the proof are the derivation of a new Lieb-Thirring inequality for the sum of eigenvalues of single particle Hamiltonians in 2D with magnetic fields, and an estimation of the exchange-correlation energy. For this last estimate we study a model of classical point charges with electrostatic interactions that provides a lower bound for the true quantum mechanical energy.
Lieb Elliott H.
Solovej Jan Philip
Yngvason Jakob
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