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. 1995 May 23;92(11):5006–5007. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.11.5006

Stability of Coulomb systems in a magnetic field.

C Fefferman 1
PMCID: PMC41836  PMID: 11607547

Abstract

I study N electrons and M protons in a magnetic field. It is shown that the total energy per particle is bounded below by a constant independent of M and N, provided the fine structure constant is small. Here, the total energy includes the energy of the magnetic field.

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