Nonlocal potentials and complex angular momentum theory

DOI10.1007/S00023-010-0041-8MaRDI QIDQ625727zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacques Bros, Enrico De Micheli, Giovanni Alberto Viano

Publication date 25 February 2011

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2902

zbMATH Keywords

complex angular momentum nonlocal potentials resonances and echoes scattering amplitude

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to establish meromorphy properties of the partial scattering amplitude T(lambda,k) associated with physically relevant classes N_{w,alpha}^gamma of nonlocal potentials in corresponding domains D_{gamma,alpha}^delta of the space C^2 of the complex angular momentum lambda and of the complex momentum k (namely, the square root of the energy). The general expression of T as a quotient Theta(lambda,k)/sigma(lambda,k) of two holomorphic functions in D_{gamma,alpha}^delta is obtained by using the Fredholm-Smithies theory for complex k, at first for lambda=l integer, and in a second step for lambda complex (Real(lambda)>-1/2). Finally, we justify the "Watson resummation" of the partial wave amplitudes in an angular sector of the lambda-plane in terms of the various components of the polar manifold of T with equation sigma(lambda,k)=0. While integrating the basic Regge notion of interpolation of resonances in the upper half-plane of lambda, this unified representation of the singularities of T also provides an attractive possible description of antiresonances in the lower half-plane of lambda. Such a possibility, which is forbidden in the usual theory of local potentials, represents an enriching alternative to the standard Breit-Wigner hard-sphere picture of antiresonances.

Review text

When two composite particles collide, the fermionic character of the components emerges and the antisymmetrization of the system generates repulsive exchange-forces followed by echoes due to Pauli's exclusion principle. The notion of echo was introduced in parallel with the notion of resonance by \textit{K. W. McVoy} [Ann. Phys. 43, 91--125 (1965)]. Despite of this parallel, the status of the echoes has remained obscure in terms of the analytic properties in energy of the scattering functions while the pole-resonance conceptual correspondence was successfully achieved by various authors, e.g., \textit{V. de Alfaro} and \textit{T. Regge} [Potential scattering. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Comp. (1965; Zbl 0141.23202)]. In this paper, the authors study singularities of the partial scattering amplitude \(T\) for appropriate classes of nonlocal potentials, both in the complex momentum \(k\)-plane and in the complex angular momentum \(\lambda\)-plane. Their results extend Regge's formalism to the case of nonlocal potentials and provide a framework for analyzing both resonances and echoes in terms of the polar singularities of \(T\) in the upper or lower half plane of \(\lambda\).

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