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On the three-body Schr\"{o}dinger equation with decaying potentials

Quantum Physics 2012-09-13 v3

Abstract

The three-body Schr\"{o}dinger operator in the space of square integrable functions is found to be a certain extension of operators which generate the exponential unitary group containing a subgroup with nilpotent Lie algebra of length κ+1\kappa+1, κ=0,1,...\kappa=0,1,... As a result, the solutions to the three-body Schr\"{o}dinger equation with decaying potentials are shown to exist in the commutator subalgebras. For the Coulomb three-body system, it turns out that the task is to solve - in these subalgebras - the radial Schr\"{o}dinger equation in three dimensions with the inverse power potential of the form rκ1r^{-\kappa-1}. As an application to Coulombic system, analytic solutions for some lower bound states are presented. Under conditions pertinent to the three-unit-charge system, obtained solutions, with κ=0\kappa=0, are reduced to the well-known eigenvalues of bound states at threshold.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4029,
  title  = {On the three-body Schr\"{o}dinger equation with decaying potentials},
  author = {Rytis Jursenas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4029},
  year   = {2012}
}

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