Exotic atoms in two dimensions
Atomic Physics
2011-05-12 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study the behavior of energy levels in two dimensions for exotic atoms, i.e., when a long-range attractive potential is supplemented by a short-range interaction, and compare the results with these of the one- and three-dimensional cases. The energy shifts are well reproduced by a scattering length formula , where is the scattering length in the short-range potential, the square of the wave function at the origin in the external potential, and is related to the derivative with respect to the energy of the solution that is regular at large distances.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.5506,
title = {Exotic atoms in two dimensions},
author = {Combescure Monique and Fayard Claude and Khare Avinash and Richard Jean-Marc},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.5506},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Significant upgrade of the early version, with a new and more detailed derivation of the energy-shift formula, and all figures redrawn. To appear in J. Phys. A