Connection formulas between Coulomb wave functions

DOI10.1063/1.5054368MaRDI QIDQ4561701zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 12 December 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10976

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: The mathematical relations between the regular Coulomb function

F_{e t a e l l} (h o)

and the irregular Coulomb functions

H^{p} m_{e t a e l l} (h o)

and

G_{e t a e l l} (h o)

are obtained in the complex plane of the variables

e t a

and

h o

for integer or half-integer values of

e l l

. These relations, referred to as "connection formulas", form the basis of the theory of Coulomb wave functions, and play an important role in many fields of physics, especially in the quantum theory of charged particle scattering. As a first step, the symmetry properties of the regular function

F_{e t a e l l} (h o)

are studied, in particular under the transformation

e l l m a p s t o - e l l - 1

, by means of the modified Coulomb function

P h i_{e t a e l l} (h o)

, which is entire in the dimensionless energy

e t a^{- 2}

and the angular momentum

e l l

. Then, it is shown that, for integer or half-integer

e l l

, the irregular functions

H^{p} m_{e t a e l l} (h o)

and

G_{e t a e l l} (h o)

can be expressed in terms of the derivatives of

P h i_{e t a, e l l} (h o)

and

P h i_{e t a, - e l l - 1} (h o)

with respect to

e l l

. As a consequence, the connection formulas directly lead to the description of the singular structures of

H^{p} m_{e t a e l l} (h o)

and

G_{e t a e l l} (h o)

at complex energies in their whole Riemann surface. The analysis of the functions is supplemented by novel graphical representations in the complex plane of

e t a^{- 1}

.

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