On a center-of-mass system of coordinates for symmetric classical and quantum many-body problems

DOI10.1063/1.5119131MaRDI QIDQ5206036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Érik Amorim

Publication date 17 December 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00108

zbMATH Keywords

(anti)symmetric ground statesbreaking and restoration of permutation symmetry in many-body problemscenter-of-mass system of coordinatesHartree-Fock theoryJacobi coordinatesPauli exclusion principlequantum ground states of bosonic atoms and stars

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Particle exchange symmetries in quantum theory (general) (81V72) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

Abstract: In the context of classical or quantum many-body problems involving identical bodies, a linear change of coordinates can be constructed with the properties that it includes the center-of-mass as one of the new coordinates and preserves the inherent permutation symmetry of both the Hamiltonian and the admissible states. This has advantages over the usual system of Jacobi coordinates in the study of many-body problems for which permutation symmetry of the bodies plays an important role. This paper contains the details of the construction of this system and the proof that these properties uniquely determine it, up to trivial modifications. Examples of applications to both classical and quantum problems are explored, including a generalization to problems involving groups of different species of bodies.

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