Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1996-10-28
Jour. Stat. Phys., 89 (1997) 37
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
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10.1007/BF02770753
The stability of matter composed of electrons and static nuclei is investigated for a relativistic dynamics for the electrons given by a suitably projected Dirac operator and with Coulomb interactions. In addition there is an arbitrary classical magnetic field of finite energy. Despite the previously known facts that ordinary nonrelativistic matter with magnetic fields, or relativistic matter without magnetic fields is already unstable when the fine structure constant, is too large it is noteworthy that the combination of the two is still stable provided the projection onto the positive energy states of the Dirac operator, which defines the electron, is chosen properly. A good choice is to include the magnetic field in the definition. A bad choice, which always leads to instability, is the usual one in which the positive energy states are defined by the free Dirac operator. Both assertions are proved here.
Lieb Elliott H.
Siedentop Heinz
Solovej Jan Philip
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