Scattering by a long-range potential

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2013)056zbMATH Open1342.81644arXiv1310.4247OpenAlexW2155971504MaRDI QIDQ737557FDOQ737557

Authors: Shahar Hod 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The phenomenon of wave tails has attracted much attention over the years from both physicists and mathematicians. However, our understanding of this fascinating phenomenon is not complete yet. In particular, most former studies of the tail phenomenon have focused on scattering potentials which approach zero asymptotically ($xoinfty$) faster than $x^{-2}$. It is well-known that for these (rapidly decaying) scattering potentials the late-time tails are determined by the first Born approximation and are therefore {it linear} in the amplitudes of the scattering potentials (there are, however, some exceptional cases in which the first Born approximation vanishes and one has to consider higher orders of the scattering problem). In the present study we analyze in detail the late-time dynamics of the Klein-Gordon wave equation with a ({it slowly} decaying) Coulomb-like scattering potential: $V(xoinfty)=alpha/x$. In particular, we write down an explicit solution (that is, an exact analytic solution which is not based on the first Born approximation) for this scattering problem. It is found that the asymptotic ($toinfty$) late-time behavior of the fields depends {it non}-linearly on the amplitude $alpha$ of the scattering potential. This non-linear dependence on the amplitude of the scattering potential reflects the fact that the late-time dynamics associated with this slowly decaying scattering potential is dominated by {it multiple} scattering from asymptotically far regions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4247

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesclassical theories of gravityintegrable equations in physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U10)

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