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Published September 2018 | Submitted
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The Maximal Excess Charge in Müller Density-Matrix-Functional Theory

Abstract

We consider an atom described by Müller theory, which is similar to Hartree–Fock theory, but with a modified exchange term. We prove that a nucleus of charge Z can bind at most Z + C electrons, where C is a universal constant. Our proof proceeds by comparison with Thomas–Fermi theory, and a key ingredient is a novel bound on the number of electrons far from the nucleus.

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© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. Received: 04 December 2017; Accepted: 09 April 2018; First Online: 07 July 2018. The authors are grateful to Heinz Siedentop for a motivating discussion. Partial support by U.S. National Science Foundation DMS-1363432 (R.L.F.), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Project Nr. P 27533-N27 (P.T.N.), CONICYT (Chile) through CONICYT–PCHA/Doctorado Nacional/2014, Fondecyt Project # 116–0856 and Iniciativa Científica Milenio (Chile) through Millennium Nucleus RC–120002 "Física Matemática" (H.V.D.B.) is acknowledged.

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