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Coulomb expectation values in $D=3$ and $D=3-2\epsilon$ dimensions

Quantum Physics 2020-05-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We explore the quantum Coulomb problem for two-body bound states, in D=3D=3 and D=32ϵD=3-2\epsilon dimensions, in detail, and give an extensive list of expectation values that arise in the evaluation of QED corrections to bound state energies. We describe the techniques used to obtain these expectation values and give general formulas for the evaluation of integrals involving associated Laguerre polynomials. In addition, we give formulas for the evaluation of integrals involving subtracted associated Laguerre polynomials--those with low powers of the variable subtracted off--that arise when evaluating divergent expectation values. We present perturbative results (in the parameter ϵ\epsilon) that show how bound state energies and wave functions in D=32ϵD=3-2\epsilon dimensions differ from their D=3D=3 dimensional counterparts and use these formulas to find regularized expressions for divergent expectation values such as Vˉ3\big \langle \bar V^3 \big \rangle and (Vˉ)2\big \langle (\bar V')^2 \big \rangle where Vˉ\bar V is the DD-dimensional Coulomb potential. We evaluate a number of finite DD-dimensional expectation values such as r2+4ϵr2\big \langle r^{-2+4\epsilon} \partial_r^2 \big \rangle and r4ϵp4\big \langle r^{4\epsilon} p^4 \big \rangle that have ϵ0\epsilon \rightarrow 0 limits that differ from their three-dimensional counterparts r2r2\big \langle r^{-2} \partial_r^2 \big \rangle and p4\big \langle p^4 \big \rangle. We explore the use of recursion relations, the Feynman-Hellmann theorem, and momentum space brackets combined with DD-dimensional Fourier transformation for the evaluation of DD-dimensional expectation values. The results of this paper are useful when using dimensional regularization in the calculation of properties of Coulomb bound systems.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1908.02324,
  title  = {Coulomb expectation values in $D=3$ and $D=3-2\epsilon$ dimensions},
  author = {Gregory S. Adkins and Md Faisal Alam and Conor Larison and Ruosi Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02324},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

41 pages, 2 figures; v2 includes a sample calculation

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