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One-Dimensional Traps, Two-Body Interactions, Few-Body Symmetries: II. $N$ Particles

Quantum Physics 2017-02-06 v2 Quantum Gases Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

This is the second in a pair of articles that classify the configuration space and kinematic symmetry groups for NN identical particles in one-dimensional traps experiencing Galilean-invariant two-body interactions. These symmetries explain degeneracies in the few-body spectrum and demonstrate how tuning the trap shape and the particle interactions can manipulate these degeneracies. The additional symmetries that emerge in the non-interacting limit and in the unitary limit of an infinitely strong contact interaction are sufficient to algebraically solve for the spectrum and degeneracy in terms of the one-particle observables. Symmetry also determines the degree to which the algebraic expressions for energy level shifts by weak interactions or nearly-unitary interactions are universal, i.e.\ independent of trap shape and details of the interaction. Identical fermions and bosons with and without spin are considered. This article analyzes the symmetries of NN particles in asymmetric, symmetric, and harmonic traps; the prequel article treats the one, two and three particle cases.

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@article{arxiv.1505.00659,
  title  = {One-Dimensional Traps, Two-Body Interactions, Few-Body Symmetries: II. $N$ Particles},
  author = {N. L. Harshman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00659},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v2 46 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Revised notation, added commentary and references, and made corrections. Some of this materially originally appeared in version 1 of arXiv:1501.00215, but that article has been split into two pieces, and this is the second piece