The absolute definition of the phase-shift in potential scattering

DOI10.1063/1.1389090MaRDI QIDQ2775018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Khosrow Chadan, Reido Kobayashi, Takao Kobayashi

Publication date 26 February 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0103044

zbMATH Keywords

low-energy behavior of the \(S\)-wave scattering amplitude in two dimensionsregular spherically symmetric potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory, inverse scattering involving ordinary differential operators (34L25) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: The variable phase approach to potential scattering with regular spherically symmetric potentials satisfying ( ef{1e}), and studied by Calogero in his book${}^5$, is revisited, and we show directly that it gives the absolute definition of the phase-shifts, i.e. the one which defines $delt{a}_{ell}(k)$ as a continuous function of $k$ for all $kgeq0$, up to infinity, where $delt{a}_{ell}(infty)=0$ is automatically satisfied. This removes the usual ambiguity $pmnpi$, $n$ integer, attached to the definition of the phase-shifts through the partial wave scattering amplitudes obtained from the Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation, or via the phase of the Jost functions. It is then shown rigorously, and also on several examples, that this definition of the phase-shifts is very general, and applies as well to all potentials which have a strong repulsive singularity at the origin, for instance those which behave like $g{r}^{-m}$, $g>0$, $mgeq2$, etc. We also give an example of application to the low-energy behaviour of the $S$-wave scattering amplitude in two dimensions, which leads to an interesting result.

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