Bound for the Kinetic Energy of Fermions Which Proves the Stability of Matter
- 15 September 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 35 (11) , 687-689
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.35.687
Abstract
We first prove that , the sum of the negative energies of a single particle in a potential , is bounded above by . This, in turn, implies a lower bound for the kinetic energy of fermions of the form , where is the one-particle density. From this, using the no-binding theorem of Thomas-Fermi theory, we present a short proof of the stability of matter with a reasonable constant for the bound.
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