Floating Wigner crystal and periodic jellium configurations

Lauritsen AB. 2021. Floating Wigner crystal and periodic jellium configurations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 62(8), 083305.

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Extending on ideas of Lewin, Lieb, and Seiringer [Phys. Rev. B 100, 035127 (2019)], we present a modified “floating crystal” trial state for jellium (also known as the classical homogeneous electron gas) with density equal to a characteristic function. This allows us to show that three definitions of the jellium energy coincide in dimensions d ≥ 2, thus extending the result of Cotar and Petrache [“Equality of the Jellium and uniform electron gas next-order asymptotic terms for Coulomb and Riesz potentials,” arXiv: 1707.07664 (2019)] and Lewin, Lieb, and Seiringer [Phys. Rev. B 100, 035127 (2019)] that the three definitions coincide in dimension d ≥ 3. We show that the jellium energy is also equivalent to a “renormalized energy” studied in a series of papers by Serfaty and others, and thus, by the work of Bétermin and Sandier [Constr. Approximation 47, 39–74 (2018)], we relate the jellium energy to the order n term in the logarithmic energy of n points on the unit 2-sphere. We improve upon known lower bounds for this renormalized energy. Additionally, we derive formulas for the jellium energy of periodic configurations.
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2021-08-01
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Journal of Mathematical Physics
Acknowledgement
The author would like to thank Robert Seiringer for guidance and many helpful comments on this project. The author would also like to thank Mathieu Lewin for his comments on the manuscript and Lorenzo Portinale for providing his lecture notes for the course “Mathematics of quantum many-body systems” in spring 2020, taught by Robert Seiringer. The Proof of Theorem III.1 is inspired by these lecture notes.
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62
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8
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083305
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Lauritsen AB. Floating Wigner crystal and periodic jellium configurations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 2021;62(8). doi:10.1063/5.0053494
Lauritsen, A. B. (2021). Floating Wigner crystal and periodic jellium configurations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0053494
Lauritsen, Asbjørn Bækgaard. “Floating Wigner Crystal and Periodic Jellium Configurations.” Journal of Mathematical Physics. AIP Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0053494.
A. B. Lauritsen, “Floating Wigner crystal and periodic jellium configurations,” Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 62, no. 8. AIP Publishing, 2021.
Lauritsen AB. 2021. Floating Wigner crystal and periodic jellium configurations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 62(8), 083305.
Lauritsen, Asbjørn Bækgaard. “Floating Wigner Crystal and Periodic Jellium Configurations.” Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 62, no. 8, 083305, AIP Publishing, 2021, doi:10.1063/5.0053494.
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