scientific article; zbMATH DE number 14762

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Scattering theory of linear operators (47A40) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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The scattering theory for the pair \[ H=-(1/2)\Delta-x+V(x),\quad H_0=- (1/2)\Delta-x \] on \(L^2(\mathbb{R})\) is considered. In a recent paper by the first author and \textit{T. Ozawa} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Phys. Théor., 54, No. 3, 229--243 (1991; Zbl 0768.47002)] it was shown that for potentials with behavior \(V(x)\sim| x|^{-\gamma}\) as \(| x|\to\infty\) with \(0<\gamma\leq1/2\) the ordinary quantum wave operators fail to exist, whereas for the corresponding classical system the classical wave operators exist and are asymptotically complete. In this paper the authors construct Dollard-type modified wave operators as follows. Assume \(V\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R})\) is a real-valued function such that for some \(\varepsilon\), \(0<\varepsilon\leq 1/2\), \(|\partial^k_x V(x)| \le C_ k(1+| x|)^{-\varepsilon-(k/2)}\) for all integers \(k\ge 0\). The modified free time evolution is then given by \[ U_D(t)=\exp(-itH_0)\exp(- i\int^t_0V(sD+s^2/2)\,ds), \] where \(D=-i\partial_x\). It is shown that the modified wave operators \(\Omega_\pm = s- \lim_{t\to\pm\infty} e^{itH}U_D(t)\) exist and are unitary. This result is then generalized by showing that we can add a Stark short range potential and still have existence and asymptotic completeness of the modified wave operators. Previously the existence and asymptotic completeness of modified wave operators with a stationary modifier of Isozaki-Kitada type was shown by \textit{D. White} in [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 39, 517--546 (1990; Zbl 0695.35069)], under the same conditions on the potential as above.

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