Stability of Coulomb systems in a magnetic field.

Fefferman, C · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 1995

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

I study N electrons and M protons in a magnetic field. It is shown that the total energy per particle is bounded below by a constant independent of M and N, provided the fine structure constant is small. Here, the total energy includes the energy of the magnetic field.