The perils of minimal coupling to electromagnetic field in quantum many-body systems
arXiv:1910.08726 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.121104
Abstract
Consistency with the Maxwell equations determines how matter must be coupled to the electro-magnetic field (EMF) within the minimal coupling scheme. Specifically, if the Hamiltonian includes just a short-range repulsion among the conduction electrons, as is commonly the case for models of correlated metals, those electrons must be coupled to the full internal EMF, whose longitudinal and transverse components are self-consistently related to the electron charge and current densities through Gauss's and circuital laws, respectively. Since such self-consistency relation is hard to implement when modelling the non-equilibrium dynamics caused by the EMF, as in pump-probe experiments, it is common to replace in model calculations the internal EMF by the external one. Here we show that such replacement may be extremely dangerous, especially when the frequency of the external EMF is below the intra-band plasma edge.
arXiv comment7 pages, 4 figures
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