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Fabian Portmann: The ionization conjecture in quantum mechanics

Time: Fri 2014-05-09 13.00 - 14.00

Location: Room 3721, Lindstedtsvägen 25, 7th floor, Department of Mathematics, KTH

Participating: Fabian Portmann, KTH

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It is a long-standing open problem in quantum mechanics to derive a sharp upper 
bound on the number of electrons a nucleus can bind. I will discuss the problem in detail 
and try to give an overview of the existing results in the literature.