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Quasi Kepler's third law for quantum many-body systems

General Physics 2021-03-26 v3

Abstract

The Kepler's third law is a relation between the period and the energy of two classical particles interacting via a gravitational potential. Recent works showed that this law could be extended, at least approximately, to classical three-body systems, or even many-body classical systems. So, a classical quasi Kepler's third law seems to exist. In this paper, approximate analytical solutions are computed for quantum self-gravitating particles with different masses. The results give strong indications in favor of the existence of a quasi Kepler's third law for such systems. The relevance of the proposal is checked with accurate numerical data for the ground state of self-gravitating identical bosons and with numerical estimations for systems with identical particles plus a different one. Connections between the quantum and classical systems are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2005.06973,
  title  = {Quasi Kepler's third law for quantum many-body systems},
  author = {C. Semay and C. T. Willemyns},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06973},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Some explanations and references added. To appear in Eur. J. Phys. Plus

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