We consider an electron coupled to the quantized radiation field and subject
to a slowly varying electrostatic potential. We establish that over
sufficiently long times radiation effects are negligible and the dressed
electron is governed by an effective one-particle Hamiltonian. In the proof
only a few generic properties of the full Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonian H_PF enter.
Most importantly, H_PF must have an isolated ground state band for |p| < p_c <=
\infty with p the total momentum and p_c indicating that the ground state band
may terminate. This structure demands a local approximation theorem, in the
sense that the one- particle approximation holds until the semi-classical
dynamics violates |p|
@article{0010009,
author = {Teufel, Stefan and Spohn, Herbert},
title = {Semi-classical motion of dressed electrons},
journal = {arXiv},
volume = {2000},
number = {0},
year = {2000},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/0010009}
}
Teufel, Stefan; Spohn, Herbert. Semi-classical motion of dressed electrons. arXiv, Tome 2000 (2000) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/0010009/