On the number of electrons that a nucleus can bind

2012/09/17 by Nam, Phan Thành
#Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.3642

Abstract

We review some results on the ionization conjecture, which says that a neutral atom can bind at most one or two extra electrons.

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