Analytic, group-theoretic wave functions for confined, correlated N-body systems with general two-body interactions

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.03.002MaRDI QIDQ2498786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin L. Dunn, D. K. Watson, J. G. Loeser

Publication date 16 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2006.03.002

zbMATH Keywords

confined N-body systemdimensional perturbationidentical particle symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Molecular physics (81V55)

Review text

The authors devise a method to approximate the lowest order \(S\)-wave function of a quantum system with \(N\) identical confined particles in \(D\) dimensions. This they do in four steps: 1. transformation of the Hamiltonian to internal coordinates 2. scaling and dimensional scaling of the equation 3. Expansion in \(1/D\) around the totally symmetric \(D=\infty\) limit 4. Reduction and simplification of all expressions by using symmetry coordinates derived from irreducible representations of \({\mathcal S}_N\), the symmetric group of \(N\) particles. The basic Hamiltonian consists of the single particle Hamiltonians, kinetic energy plus spherical symmetric confining potential, and \(N (N-1)/2\) identical pair interactions. As internal coordinates the radii \(r_i\) from the center of the confining potential and the relative angles \(\gamma_{ij}\) are used. For the perturbation analysis the radii are scaled by a quadratic dimension factor \(\kappa (D)\) which ``freezes the particles at large \(D\). This ``frozen ground state is assumed to be totally symmetric, i.e. \(r_i =\overline{r}\), \(\gamma_{ij} = \overline{\gamma}\). The first order corrections can then be considered as small oscillations around this state. To obtain the normal mode vibrations the \(FG\)-matrix method of \textit{Wilson} and \textit{Decius} [Molecular Vibrations: The Theory of Infrared and Raman Vibrational Spectra, McGraw-Hill, New York (1955)] is used. The key reduction of this problem is achieved however by systematically using the \({\mathcal S}_N\)-symmetry of the underlying problem. Through the use of representations of \({\mathcal S}_N\) the authors introduce symmetry coordinates which greatly simplify the problem. The determination of the possible irreducible representations, corresponding symmetry coordinates and transformations is in fact the major part of this paper. Unlike conventional many particle perturbation schemes like Hartree-Fock or Gross-Pitaevskii methods this scheme is not restricted to weak interactions. Thus it also transcends mean field results. It would have been advantageous for this paper to include at least one application. The discussion and motivation for the dimensional scaling should have been more explicit also.

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