Universality conjecture for many-body atomic densities

Let ρZ\rho_Z be the one-body density of a ground state of the many-body atomic Hamiltonian with nuclear charge ZZ and N=Nc(Z)N=N_c(Z) electrons. Universality conjecture. Along subsequences Z=ZnZ=Z_n\to\infty, the densities have a pointwise limit away from the nucleus: there is a function ρ\rho_\infty such that

limnρZn(x)=ρ(x),x0.\lim_{n\to\infty}\rho_{Z_n}(x)=\rho_\infty(x),\qquad x\ne0.

Universality of the corresponding Thomas–Fermi and TFW quantities is known, whereas this many-body Schrödinger analogue remains open.

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Phan Thành Nam, “The ionization problem in quantum mechanics”, arXiv:2206.15393 (2022).

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