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The three-body Coulomb scattering problem in a discrete Hilbert-space basis representation
S. L. Yakovleva, Z. Pappb a Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
b Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA
Abstract:
We propose modified Faddeev–Merkuriev integral equations for solving the $2\to2,3$ quantum three-body Coulomb scattering problem. We show that the solution of these equations can be obtained using a discrete Hilbert-space basis and that the error in the scattering amplitudes due to truncating the basis can be made arbitrarily small. The Coulomb Green's function is also confined to the two-body sector of the three-body configuration space by this truncation and can be constructed in the leading order using convolution integrals of two-body Green's functions. To evaluate the convolution integral, we propose an integration contour that is applicable for all energies including bound-state energies and scattering energies below and above the three-body breakup threshold.
Keywords:
Coulomb scattering problem, quantum scattering problem, Faddeev–Merkuriev integral equations.
Received: 01.10.2009 Revised: 17.11.2009
Citation:
S. L. Yakovlev, Z. Papp, “The three-body Coulomb scattering problem in a discrete Hilbert-space basis representation”, TMF, 163:2 (2010), 314–327; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 163:2 (2010), 666–676
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf6502https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf6502 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf/v163/i2/p314
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