TY - JOUR AB - It is a remarkable property of BCS theory that the ratio of the energy gap at zero temperature Ξ and the critical temperature Tc is (approximately) given by a universal constant, independent of the microscopic details of the fermionic interaction. This universality has rigorously been proven quite recently in three spatial dimensions and three different limiting regimes: weak coupling, low density and high density. The goal of this short note is to extend the universal behavior to lower dimensions d=1,2 and give an exemplary proof in the weak coupling limit. AU - Henheik, Sven Joscha AU - Lauritsen, Asbjørn Bækgaard AU - Roos, Barbara ID - 14542 JF - Reviews in Mathematical Physics SN - 0129-055X TI - Universality in low-dimensional BCS theory ER - TY - JOUR AB - We consider a class of polaron models, including the Fröhlich model, at zero total momentum, and show that at sufficiently weak coupling there are no excited eigenvalues below the essential spectrum. AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 14662 IS - 3 JF - Journal of Spectral Theory SN - 1664-039X TI - Absence of excited eigenvalues for Fröhlich type polaron models at weak coupling VL - 13 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Recently the leading order of the correlation energy of a Fermi gas in a coupled mean-field and semiclassical scaling regime has been derived, under the assumption of an interaction potential with a small norm and with compact support in Fourier space. We generalize this result to large interaction potentials, requiring only |⋅|V^∈ℓ1(Z3). Our proof is based on approximate, collective bosonization in three dimensions. Significant improvements compared to recent work include stronger bounds on non-bosonizable terms and more efficient control on the bosonization of the kinetic energy. AU - Benedikter, Niels P AU - Porta, Marcello AU - Schlein, Benjamin AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 13225 IS - 4 JF - Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis SN - 0003-9527 TI - Correlation energy of a weakly interacting Fermi gas with large interaction potential VL - 247 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We consider the ground state and the low-energy excited states of a system of N identical bosons with interactions in the mean-field scaling regime. For the ground state, we derive a weak Edgeworth expansion for the fluctuations of bounded one-body operators, which yields corrections to a central limit theorem to any order in 1/N−−√. For suitable excited states, we show that the limiting distribution is a polynomial times a normal distribution, and that higher-order corrections are given by an Edgeworth-type expansion. AU - Bossmann, Lea AU - Petrat, Sören P ID - 13226 IS - 4 JF - Letters in Mathematical Physics SN - 0377-9017 TI - Weak Edgeworth expansion for the mean-field Bose gas VL - 113 ER - TY - JOUR AB - For the Fröhlich model of the large polaron, we prove that the ground state energy as a function of the total momentum has a unique global minimum at momentum zero. This implies the non-existence of a ground state of the translation invariant Fröhlich Hamiltonian and thus excludes the possibility of a localization transition at finite coupling. AU - Lampart, Jonas AU - Mitrouskas, David Johannes AU - Mysliwy, Krzysztof ID - 14192 IS - 3 JF - Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry KW - Geometry and Topology KW - Mathematical Physics SN - 1385-0172 TI - On the global minimum of the energy–momentum relation for the polaron VL - 26 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We consider N trapped bosons in the mean-field limit with coupling constant λN = 1/(N − 1). The ground state of such systems exhibits Bose–Einstein condensation. We prove that the probability of finding ℓ particles outside the condensate wave function decays exponentially in ℓ. AU - Mitrouskas, David Johannes AU - Pickl, Peter ID - 14715 IS - 12 JF - Journal of Mathematical Physics SN - 0022-2488 TI - Exponential decay of the number of excitations in the weakly interacting Bose gas VL - 64 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Abstract We study the spectrum of the Fröhlich Hamiltonian for the polaron at fixed total momentum. We prove the existence of excited eigenvalues between the ground state energy and the essential spectrum at strong coupling. In fact, our main result shows that the number of excited energy bands diverges in the strong coupling limit. To prove this we derive upper bounds for the min-max values of the corresponding fiber Hamiltonians and compare them with the bottom of the essential spectrum, a lower bound on which was recently obtained by Brooks and Seiringer (Comm. Math. Phys. 404:1 (2023), 287–337). The upper bounds are given in terms of the ground state energy band shifted by momentum-independent excitation energies determined by an effective Hamiltonian of Bogoliubov type. AU - Mitrouskas, David Johannes AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 14854 IS - 4 JF - Pure and Applied Analysis KW - General Medicine SN - 2578-5885 TI - Ubiquity of bound states for the strongly coupled polaron VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR AB - In [10] Nam proved a Lieb–Thirring Inequality for the kinetic energy of a fermionic quantum system, with almost optimal (semi-classical) constant and a gradient correction term. We present a stronger version of this inequality, with a much simplified proof. As a corollary we obtain a simple proof of the original Lieb–Thirring inequality. AU - Seiringer, Robert AU - Solovej, Jan Philip ID - 14254 IS - 10 JF - Journal of Functional Analysis SN - 0022-1236 TI - A simple approach to Lieb-Thirring type inequalities VL - 285 ER - TY - CHAP AB - In this chapter we first review the Levy–Lieb functional, which gives the lowest kinetic and interaction energy that can be reached with all possible quantum states having a given density. We discuss two possible convex generalizations of this functional, corresponding to using mixed canonical and grand-canonical states, respectively. We present some recent works about the local density approximation, in which the functionals get replaced by purely local functionals constructed using the uniform electron gas energy per unit volume. We then review the known upper and lower bounds on the Levy–Lieb functionals. We start with the kinetic energy alone, then turn to the classical interaction alone, before we are able to put everything together. A later section is devoted to the Hohenberg–Kohn theorem and the role of many-body unique continuation in its proof. AU - Lewin, Mathieu AU - Lieb, Elliott H. AU - Seiringer, Robert ED - Cances, Eric ED - Friesecke, Gero ID - 14992 SN - 3005-0286 T2 - Density Functional Theory TI - Universal Functionals in Density Functional Theory ER - TY - JOUR AB - Ongoing development of quantum simulators allows for a progressively finer degree of control of quantum many-body systems. This motivates the development of efficient approaches to facilitate the control of such systems and enable the preparation of nontrivial quantum states. Here we formulate an approach to control quantum systems based on matrix product states (MPSs). We compare counterdiabatic and leakage minimization approaches to the so-called local steering problem that consists in finding the best value of the control parameters for generating a unitary evolution of the specific MPS in a given direction. In order to benchmark the different approaches, we apply them to the generalization of the PXP model known to exhibit coherent quantum dynamics due to quantum many-body scars. We find that the leakage-based approach generally outperforms the counterdiabatic framework and use it to construct a Floquet model with quantum scars. We perform the first steps towards global trajectory optimization and demonstrate entanglement steering capabilities in the generalized PXP model. Finally, we apply our leakage minimization approach to construct quantum scars in the periodically driven nonintegrable Ising model. AU - Ljubotina, Marko AU - Roos, Barbara AU - Abanin, Dmitry A. AU - Serbyn, Maksym ID - 12276 IS - 3 JF - PRX Quantum KW - General Medicine TI - Optimal steering of matrix product states and quantum many-body scars VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We consider a gas of N bosons with interactions in the mean-field scaling regime. We review the proof of an asymptotic expansion of its low-energy spectrum, eigenstates, and dynamics, which provides corrections to Bogoliubov theory to all orders in 1/ N. This is based on joint works with Petrat, Pickl, Seiringer, and Soffer. In addition, we derive a full asymptotic expansion of the ground state one-body reduced density matrix. AU - Bossmann, Lea ID - 11783 IS - 6 JF - Journal of Mathematical Physics KW - Mathematical Physics KW - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics SN - 0022-2488 TI - Low-energy spectrum and dynamics of the weakly interacting Bose gas VL - 63 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We study the many-body dynamics of an initially factorized bosonic wave function in the mean-field regime. We prove large deviation estimates for the fluctuations around the condensate. We derive an upper bound extending a recent result to more general interactions. Furthermore, we derive a new lower bound which agrees with the upper bound in leading order. AU - Rademacher, Simone Anna Elvira AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 11917 JF - Journal of Statistical Physics KW - Mathematical Physics KW - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics SN - 0022-4715 TI - Large deviation estimates for weakly interacting bosons VL - 188 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We consider the many-body time evolution of weakly interacting bosons in the mean field regime for initial coherent states. We show that bounded k-particle operators, corresponding to dependent random variables, satisfy both a law of large numbers and a central limit theorem. AU - Rademacher, Simone Anna Elvira ID - 12083 IS - 8 JF - Journal of Mathematical Physics SN - 0022-2488 TI - Dependent random variables in quantum dynamics VL - 63 ER - TY - THES AB - The scope of this thesis is to study quantum systems exhibiting a continuous symmetry that is broken on the level of the corresponding effective theory. In particular we are going to investigate translation-invariant Bose gases in the mean field limit, effectively described by the Hartree functional, and the Fröhlich Polaron in the regime of strong coupling, effectively described by the Pekar functional. The latter is a model describing the interaction between a charged particle and the optical modes of a polar crystal. Regarding the former, we assume in addition that the particles in the gas are unconfined, and typically we will consider particles that are subject to an attractive interaction. In both cases the ground state energy of the Hamiltonian is not a proper eigenvalue due to the underlying translation-invariance, while on the contrary there exists a whole invariant orbit of minimizers for the corresponding effective functionals. Both, the absence of proper eigenstates and the broken symmetry of the effective theory, make the study significantly more involved and it is the content of this thesis to develop a frameworks which allows for a systematic way to circumvent these issues. It is a well-established result that the ground state energy of Bose gases in the mean field limit, as well as the ground state energy of the Fröhlich Polaron in the regime of strong coupling, is to leading order given by the minimal energy of the corresponding effective theory. As part of this thesis we identify the sub-leading term in the expansion of the ground state energy, which can be interpreted as the quantum correction to the classical energy, since the effective theories under consideration can be seen as classical counterparts. We are further going to establish an asymptotic expression for the energy-momentum relation of the Fröhlich Polaron in the strong coupling limit. In the regime of suitably small momenta, this asymptotic expression agrees with the energy-momentum relation of a free particle having an effectively increased mass, and we find that this effectively increased mass agrees with the conjectured value in the physics literature. In addition we will discuss two unrelated papers written by the author during his stay at ISTA in the appendix. The first one concerns the realization of anyons, which are quasi-particles acquiring a non-trivial phase under the exchange of two particles, as molecular impurities. The second one provides a classification of those vector fields defined on a given manifold that can be written as the gradient of a given functional with respect to a suitable metric, provided that some mild smoothness assumptions hold. This classification is subsequently used to identify those quantum Markov semigroups that can be written as a gradient flow of the relative entropy. AU - Brooks, Morris ID - 12390 SN - 2663-337X TI - Translation-invariant quantum systems with effectively broken symmetry ER - TY - JOUR AB - We study the BCS energy gap Ξ in the high–density limit and derive an asymptotic formula, which strongly depends on the strength of the interaction potential V on the Fermi surface. In combination with the recent result by one of us (Math. Phys. Anal. Geom. 25, 3, 2022) on the critical temperature Tc at high densities, we prove the universality of the ratio of the energy gap and the critical temperature. AU - Henheik, Sven Joscha AU - Lauritsen, Asbjørn Bækgaard ID - 11732 JF - Journal of Statistical Physics KW - Mathematical Physics KW - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics SN - 0022-4715 TI - The BCS energy gap at high density VL - 189 ER - TY - JOUR AB - The Lieb–Oxford inequality provides a lower bound on the Coulomb energy of a classical system of N identical charges only in terms of their one-particle density. We prove here a new estimate on the best constant in this inequality. Numerical evaluation provides the value 1.58, which is a significant improvement to the previously known value 1.64. The best constant has recently been shown to be larger than 1.44. In a second part, we prove that the constant can be reduced to 1.25 when the inequality is restricted to Hartree–Fock states. This is the first proof that the exchange term is always much lower than the full indirect Coulomb energy. AU - Lewin, Mathieu AU - Lieb, Elliott H. AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 12246 IS - 5 JF - Letters in Mathematical Physics KW - Mathematical Physics KW - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics SN - 0377-9017 TI - Improved Lieb–Oxford bound on the indirect and exchange energies VL - 112 ER - TY - THES AB - The polaron model is a basic model of quantum field theory describing a single particle interacting with a bosonic field. It arises in many physical contexts. We are mostly concerned with models applicable in the context of an impurity atom in a Bose-Einstein condensate as well as the problem of electrons moving in polar crystals. The model has a simple structure in which the interaction of the particle with the field is given by a term linear in the field’s creation and annihilation operators. In this work, we investigate the properties of this model by providing rigorous estimates on various energies relevant to the problem. The estimates are obtained, for the most part, by suitable operator techniques which constitute the principal mathematical substance of the thesis. The first application of these techniques is to derive the polaron model rigorously from first principles, i.e., from a full microscopic quantum-mechanical many-body problem involving an impurity in an otherwise homogeneous system. We accomplish this for the N + 1 Bose gas in the mean-field regime by showing that a suitable polaron-type Hamiltonian arises at weak interactions as a low-energy effective theory for this problem. In the second part, we investigate rigorously the ground state of the model at fixed momentum and for large values of the coupling constant. Qualitatively, the system is expected to display a transition from the quasi-particle behavior at small momenta, where the dispersion relation is parabolic and the particle moves through the medium dragging along a cloud of phonons, to the radiative behavior at larger momenta where the polaron decelerates and emits free phonons. At the same time, in the strong coupling regime, the bosonic field is expected to behave purely classically. Accordingly, the effective mass of the polaron at strong coupling is conjectured to be asymptotically equal to the one obtained from the semiclassical counterpart of the problem, first studied by Landau and Pekar in the 1940s. For polaron models with regularized form factors and phonon dispersion relations of superfluid type, i.e., bounded below by a linear function of the wavenumbers for all phonon momenta as in the interacting Bose gas, we prove that for a large window of momenta below the radiation threshold, the energy-momentum relation at strong coupling is indeed essentially a parabola with semi-latus rectum equal to the Landau–Pekar effective mass, as expected. For the Fröhlich polaron describing electrons in polar crystals where the dispersion relation is of the optical type and the form factor is formally UV–singular due to the nature of the point charge-dipole interaction, we are able to give the corresponding upper bound. In contrast to the regular case, this requires the inclusion of the quantum fluctuations of the phonon field, which makes the problem considerably more difficult. The results are supplemented by studies on the absolute ground-state energy at strong coupling, a proof of the divergence of the effective mass with the coupling constant for a wide class of polaron models, as well as the discussion of the apparent UV singularity of the Fröhlich model and the application of the techniques used for its removal for the energy estimates. AU - Mysliwy, Krzysztof ID - 11473 SN - 2663-337X TI - Polarons in Bose gases and polar crystals: Some rigorous energy estimates ER - TY - JOUR AB - We study a class of polaron-type Hamiltonians with sufficiently regular form factor in the interaction term. We investigate the strong-coupling limit of the model, and prove suitable bounds on the ground state energy as a function of the total momentum of the system. These bounds agree with the semiclassical approximation to leading order. The latter corresponds here to the situation when the particle undergoes harmonic motion in a potential well whose frequency is determined by the corresponding Pekar functional. We show that for all such models the effective mass diverges in the strong coupling limit, in all spatial dimensions. Moreover, for the case when the phonon dispersion relation grows at least linearly with momentum, the bounds result in an asymptotic formula for the effective mass quotient, a quantity generalizing the usual notion of the effective mass. This asymptotic form agrees with the semiclassical Landau–Pekar formula and can be regarded as the first rigorous confirmation, in a slightly weaker sense than usually considered, of the validity of the semiclassical formula for the effective mass. AU - Mysliwy, Krzysztof AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 10564 IS - 1 JF - Journal of Statistical Physics SN - 0022-4715 TI - Polaron models with regular interactions at strong coupling VL - 186 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We study two interacting quantum particles forming a bound state in d-dimensional free space, and constrain the particles in k directions to (0, ∞)k ×Rd−k, with Neumann boundary conditions. First, we prove that the ground state energy strictly decreases upon going from k to k+1. This shows that the particles stick to the corner where all boundary planes intersect. Second, we show that for all k the resulting Hamiltonian, after removing the free part of the kinetic energy, has only finitely many eigenvalues below the essential spectrum. This paper generalizes the work of Egger, Kerner and Pankrashkin (J. Spectr. Theory 10(4):1413–1444, 2020) to dimensions d > 1. AU - Roos, Barbara AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 10850 IS - 12 JF - Journal of Functional Analysis KW - Analysis SN - 0022-1236 TI - Two-particle bound states at interfaces and corners VL - 282 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We provide a definition of the effective mass for the classical polaron described by the Landau–Pekar (LP) equations. It is based on a novel variational principle, minimizing the energy functional over states with given (initial) velocity. The resulting formula for the polaron's effective mass agrees with the prediction by LP (1948 J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 18 419–423). AU - Feliciangeli, Dario AU - Rademacher, Simone Anna Elvira AU - Seiringer, Robert ID - 10755 IS - 1 JF - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical SN - 1751-8113 TI - The effective mass problem for the Landau-Pekar equations VL - 55 ER -