The reduced Hartree-Fock model with self-generated magnetic fields

Abstract

We study the well-posedness of the reduced Hartree-Fock model for molecules and perfect crystals when taking into account a self-generated magnetic field. We exhibit a critical value ${\alpha }_c>0$ such that, if the fine structure constant $\alpha$ is smaller than ${\alpha }_c$, then the corresponding system is stable, whereas if $\alpha$ is greater than ${\alpha }_c$, it is unstable. We give an explicit characterisation of ${\alpha }_c$ as a minimisation problem over the set of zero-modes, and we prove that the critical values for the molecular case and the periodic case coincide. Finally, we prove the existence of minimisers when the system is neutral or positively charged.

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