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Exotic atoms in two dimensions

Atomic Physics 2011-05-12 v2 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the behavior of energy levels in two dimensions for exotic atoms, i.e., when a long-range attractive potential is supplemented by a short-range interaction, and compare the results with these of the one- and three-dimensional cases. The energy shifts are well reproduced by a scattering length formula δE=A02/ln(a/R) \delta{E}= A_0^2/\ln (a/R), where aa is the scattering length in the short-range potential, A02/(2π)A_0^2/(2\,\pi) the square of the wave function at the origin in the external potential, and RR is related to the derivative with respect to the energy of the solution that is regular at large distances.

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@article{arxiv.1006.5506,
  title  = {Exotic atoms in two dimensions},
  author = {Combescure Monique and Fayard Claude and Khare Avinash and Richard Jean-Marc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.5506},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Significant upgrade of the early version, with a new and more detailed derivation of the energy-shift formula, and all figures redrawn. To appear in J. Phys. A

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