Unitary, continuum, stationary perturbation theory for the radial Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1063/5.0023630MaRDI QIDQ5859112zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Scott E. Hoffmann

Publication date 15 April 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01831

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Green's functions for ordinary differential equations (34B27) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: The commutators of the Poincar'e group generators will be unchanged in form if a unitary transformation relates the free generators to the generators of an interacting relativistic theory. We test the concept of unitary transformations of generators in the nonrelativistic case, requiring that the free and interacting Hamiltonians be related by a unitary transformation. Other authors have applied this concept to time-dependent perturbation theory to give unitarity of the time evolution operator to each order in perturbation theory, with results that show improvement over the standard perturbation theory. In our case, a stationary perturbation theory can be constructed to find approximate solutions of the radial Schr"odinger equation for scattering from a spherically symmetric potential. General formulae are obtained for the phase shifts at first and second order in the coupling constant. We test the method on a simple system with a known exact solution and find complete agreement between our first- and second-order contributions to the s-wave phase shifts and the corresponding expansion to second order of the exact solution.

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