A geometric construction on the quantum state manifold produces an alternative constrained Schrödinger dynamics that yields new Kohn-Sham schemes for TDDFT on finite lattices.
Existence of a stable polarized vacuum in the Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock approximation
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According to Dirac's ideas, the vacuum consists of infinitely many virtual electrons which completely fill up the negative part of the spectrum of the free Dirac operator $D^0$. In the presence of an external field, these virtual particles react and the vacuum becomes polarized. In this paper, following Chaix and Iracane ({\it J. Phys. B}, 22, 3791--3814, 1989), we consider the Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock model, which is derived from no-photon QED. The corresponding BDF-energy takes the polarization of the vacuum into account and is bounded from below. A BDF-stable vacuum is defined to be a minimizer of this energy. If it exists, such a minimizer is solution of a self-consistent equation. We show the existence of a unique minimizer of the BDF-energy in the presence of an external electrostatic field, by means of a fixed-point approach. This minimizer is interpreted as the polarized vacuum.
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Geometric theory of constrained Schr\"odinger dynamics with application to time-dependent density-functional theory on a finite lattice
A geometric construction on the quantum state manifold produces an alternative constrained Schrödinger dynamics that yields new Kohn-Sham schemes for TDDFT on finite lattices.