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The quantum mechanical many-body problem is rarely analytically solvable. One notable exception is the case of two electrons interacting via a Coulomb potential in a uniform magnetic field. The motion is confined to a two-dimensional plane,…

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The exact solution of the Schr\"odinger equation for the one-dimensional system of interacting particles with the linear dispersion law in an arbitrary external field is found. The solution is reduced to two groups of particles moving with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 M. V. Entin , L. S. Braginsky

In this paper, we study the chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity. Assuming point particles and total encounter energies $\le$ 0, the problem has three possible outcomes. We describe each outcome as a series of discrete…

Consider the planar three-body problem with masses positive $m_1,m_2,m_3$ position vector $q(t) = (q_1(t),q_2(t),q_3(t))\in\mathbb{R}^6$. Let $$U(q) = \frac{m_1m_2}{r_{12}}+\frac{m_1m_3}{r_{13}}+\frac{m_2m_3}{r_{23}}$$ where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Richard Moeckel

We present a method based on hyperspherical harmonics to solve the nuclear many-body problem. It is an extension of accurate methods used for studying few-body systems to many bodies and is based on the assumption that nucleons in nuclei…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Fabre de la Ripelle , S. A. Sofianos , R. M. Adam

Consider the planar restricted $(N+1)$-body problem with trajectories of the $N(\ge 2)$ primaries forming a collision-free periodic solution of the $N$-body problem, for any positive energy $h$ and directions $\theta_{\pm} \in [0, 2\pi)$,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Guowei Yu

The case of the planar circular restricted three-body problem where one of the two primaries has a stronger gravitational field with respect to the classical Newtonian field is investigated. We consider the case where two primaries have the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

The equations of the Newtonian $n$-body problem have a matrix form, where an $n\times n$ matrix depending on the masses and on the mutual distances appears as a factor. The $n$ eigenvalues of this matrix are real and nonnegative. In a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Alain Albouy , Jiexin Sun

We report various many-body theoretical approaches to the nonlinear decay rate and energy loss of charged particles moving in an interacting free electron gas. These include perturbative formulations of the scattering matrix, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 T. del Rio Gaztelurrutia , J. M. Pitarke

The three-body problem, which describes three masses interacting through Newtonian gravity without any restrictions imposed on the initial positions and velocities of these masses, has attracted the attention of many scientists for more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-11 Z. E. Musielak , B. Quarles

The $n$-body problem with a purely repulsive Coulomb interaction is considered. It is shown that for large times $t$ the distance between any two particles grows linearly in $t$. The trajectory of each particle is asymptotically a straight…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Gerhard Rein

Numerical solutions to Newton's equations of motion for chaotic self gravitating systems of more than 2 bodies are often regarded to be irreversible. This is due to the exponential growth of errors introduced by the integration scheme and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tjarda Boekholt

The restricted (equilateral) four-body problem consists of three bodies of masses m1, m2 and m3 (called primaries) lying in a Lagrangian config- uration of the three-body problem, i,e,. they remain fixed at the apices of an equilateral…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Jaime Burgos-Garcia

Formulas are derived for solutions of many-body wave scattering problems by small particles in the case of acoustically soft, hard, and impedance particles embedded in an inhomogeneous medium. The case of transmission (interface) boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 A. G. Ramm

We introduce a circular restricted charged three-body problem on the plane. In this model, the gravitational and Coulomb forces, due to the primary bodies, act on a test particle; the net force exerted by some primary body on the test…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Abimael Bengochea , Claudio Vidal

We present a pair-wise force law in a system of N particles that produces analytic solutions for arbitrary number of particles, masses, and initial conditions. Each pair of particles interacts via a force that is proportional to the product…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Joseph West , Sean P. Bartz

We study the quantum mechanical many-body problem of $N \geq 1$ non-relativistic electrons with spin interacting with their self-generated classical electromagnetic field and $K \geq 0$ static nuclei. We model the dynamics of the electrons…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Thomas Forrest Kieffer

We consider a bound system of charged particles moving in an external electromagnetic field, including leading relativistic corrections. The difference from the point particle with a magnetic moment comes from the presence of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Krzysztof Pachucki , Vladimir A. Yerokhin

Consider n=2l>=4 point particles with equal masses in space, subject to the following symmetry constraint: at each instant they form an orbit of the dihedral group D_l, where D_l is the group of order 2l generated by two rotations of angle…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Davide L. Ferrario , Alessandro Portaluri

The quantization of many-body systems with balanced loss and gain is investigated. Two types of models characterized by either translational invariance or rotational symmetry under rotation in a pseudo-Euclidean space are considered. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-21 Debdeep Sinha , Pijush K. Ghosh