Related papers: 3D reduction of the N-body Bethe-Salpeter equation
Starting with the homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation for two fermions, we perform a 3D reduction using a series expansion around an unspecified positive-energy instantaneous approximation of the kernel. A second series expansion is made,…
We compare two opposite ways of performing a 3D reduction of the two-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation beyond the instantaneous approximation and Salpeter's equation. The more usual method consists in performing an expansion around an…
We write a 3D equation for three fermions by combining the three two-body potentials obtained in 3D reductions (based on a series expansion around a relative-energy fixing "approximation" of the free propagators) of the corresponding…
We write a 3D equation for three fermions by combining the three two-body potentials obtained by the reductions of the corresponding two-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equations to equivalent 3D equations, putting the spectator fermion on the mass…
We present a 3D approximation of the three-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation. Our 3D equation is covariantly cluster separable and the two-fermion cluster separated limits are exact equivalents of the corresponding two-fermion Bethe-Salpeter…
Five different versions of the three-dimensional (3D) reduction of the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation in the instantaneous approximation for kernel of BS equation for the two-fermion systems are formulated. The normalization condition for the…
We apply the 3D reduction method we recently proposed for the N-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation to the 4-particle case. We find that the writing of the Bethe-Salpeter equation is not a straightforward task when N is larger or equal to 4,…
We perform a 3D reduction of the two-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation based on Sazdjian's explicitly covariant propagator, combined with a covariant substitute of the projector on the positive-energy free states. We use this combination in…
A three-dimensional reduction of the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation is proposed. The proposed reduction is in the framework of light-front dynamics. It yields auxiliary quantities for the transition matrix and the bound state. The…
Bethe-Salpeter equation is solved for bound state composed of two fermions mediated by pion exchange force of the pseudovector coupling. Expanding the amplitude by gamma matrices the one-dimensional integral equation is derived. It…
We show that the 3D reductions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation have the same bound state spectrum as the original equation, with the possible exception of some solutions for which the corresponding 3D wave function vanishes. The abnormal…
The reduction of the equation of Bethe-Salpeter of two fermions in front of light is studied for the Yukawa model. We use the light-front Green's function for the N-particle system for two-fermions plus N-2 intermediate bosons.
A three-dimensional reduction of the homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation retaining, in contrast to the Salpeter equation, the exact propagators (crucial for, e.g., a proper incorporation of dynamical chiral symmetry breakdown) is proposed.…
To understand the mechanism of the fermion pair and fermion-antifermion pair condensation,the solutions of Bethe-Salpeter equation in QED$_{3}$ is examined.In the ladder appoximation our solution for the axial-scalar is consistent with…
The Bethe-Salpeter equation plays a crucial role in understanding the physics of correlated fermions, relating to optical excitations in solids as well as resonances in high-energy physics. Yet, it is notoriously difficult to control…
This is the first of a series of three papers treating light baryon resonances (up to 3 GeV) within a relativistically covariant quark model based on the three-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation with instantaneous two- and three-body forces.…
The homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation is solved in the quenched ladder approximation for the vector positronium states of 4-component quantum electrodynamics in 2 space and 1 time dimensions. Fermion propagator input is from a Rainbow…
The method of solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation in Minkowski space, developed previously for spinless particles, is extended to a system of two fermions. The method is based on the Nakanishi integral representation of the amplitude and on…
We give a derivation of the particle-hole RPA equations for an interacting multi-fermion system by applying the instantaneous approximation to the amputated two-fermion propagator of the system. In relativistic field theory the same…
The two-fermion bound system is an attractive subject of atomic and sub-atomic physics. Despite these systems are rather simple the study of two-particle bound states is challenging and still remains a source of progress in quantum theory.…