Three-body model for neutron-halo nuclei

The neutron-halo nuclei,11Li,14Be,and 17B,are studied in the three-body model.The Yukawa interaction is used to describe the interaction of the two-body subsystem.For given parameters of the two-body interaction,the properties of these neutron-halo nuclei are calculated with the Faddeev equations and the results are compared with those in the variational method.It is shown that the method of the Faddeev equations is more accurate.Then the dependencies of the two-and three-body energies on the parameters are studied. We find numerically that two-and three-body correlations differ greatly from each other with the variation of the intrinsic force range.     

The three-body problem with short-range interactions

The quantum mechanical three-body problem is studied for general short-range interactions. We work in coordinate space to facilitate accurate computations of weakly bound and spatially extended systems. Hyperspherical coordinates are used in both the interpretation and as an integral part of the numerical method. Universal properties and model independence are discussed throughout the report. We present an overview of the hyperspherical adiabatic Faddeev equations. The wave function is expanded on hyperspherical angular eigenfunctions which in turn are found numerically using the Faddeev equations. We generalize the formalism to any dimension of space d greater or equal to two. We present two numerical techniques for solving the Faddeev equations on the hypersphere. These techniques are effective for short and intermediate/large distances including use for hard core repulsive potentials. We study the asymptotic limit of large hyperradius and derive the analytic behaviour of the angular eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. We discuss four applications of the general method. We first analyze the Efimov and Thomas effects for arbitrary angular momenta and for arbitrary dimensions d. Second we apply the method to extract the general behaviour of weakly bound three-body systems in two dimensions. Third we illustrate the method in three dimensions by structure computations of Borromean halo nuclei, the hypertriton and helium molecules. Fourth we investigate in three dimensions three-body continuum properties of Borromean halo nuclei and recombination reactions of helium atoms as an example of direct relevance for the stability of Bose–Einstein condensates.     

Operation of the Faddeev Kernel in Configuration Space

We present a practical method to solve Faddeev three-body equations at energies above the three-body breakup threshold as integral equations in coordinate space. This is an extension of a previously used method for bound states and scattering states below three-body breakup threshold energy. We show that breakup components in three-body reactions produce long-range effects on Faddeev integral kernels in coordinate space, and propose numerical procedures to treat these effects. Using these techniques, we solve Faddeev equations for neutron-deuteron scattering to compare with benchmark solutions.     

Density-dependent potential for multi-neutron halo nuclei

We apply a simple density-dependent potential model to the three-body calculation of the groundstate structure of drip-line nuclei with a weakly bound core. The hyperspherical harmonics method is used to solve the Faddeev equations. There are no undetermined potential parameters in this calculation. We find that for the halo nuclei with a weakly-bound core, the calculated properties of the ground-state structure are in better agreement with experimental data than the results calculated from the standard Woods-Saxon and Gauss type potentials. We also successfully reproduce the experimental cross sections by using the density calculated from this method. This may be explained by the fact that the simple Fermi or Gaussian function can not exactly describe the density distribution of the drip-line nuclei.     

Sensitivity of the three-body calculations to different effects

The bound state of few-body systems in light nuclei is studied as a three-body problem. The three-body problem is solved following the different approaches of the Faddeev formalism as well as the unitary pole approximation. Separable approximations are introduced to reduce the three-body problem to a set of coupled integral equations. Numerical calculations are carried out for the resulting integral equations and the separable expansion. In the present work, we calculate the ground-state binding energy of the bound three-nucleon system³H. The main interest of the present work is to investigate the sensitivity of the three-body binding energy to different effects in the problem. For this reason, we study the dependence of the three-body binding energy of different forms of local and separable two-body potentials, on the effective range of the two-body potentials, and on the percent of theD state in the deuteron wave function. Also, we test the sensitivity of the three-body binding energy to the considered number of terms from the separable expansion.     

Density-dependent potential for multi-neutron halo nuclei

We apply a simple density-dependent potential model to the three-body calculation of the ground-state structure of drip-line nuclei with a weakly bound core. The hyperspherical harmonics method is used to solve the Faddeev equations. There are no undetermined potential parameters in this calculation. We find that for the halo nuclei with a weakly-bound core, the calculated properties of the ground-state structure are in better agreement with experimental data than the results calculated from the standard Woods-Saxon and Gauss type potentials. We also successfully reproduce the experimental cross sections by using the density calculated from this method. This may be explained by the fact that the simple Fermi or Gaussian function can not exactly describe the density distribution of the drip-line nuclei.     

Integral Equations for Three-Body Coulomb Resonances

 We propose a novel method for calculating resonances in three-body systems with repulsive Coulomb interactions. The method is based on the solution of a set of Faddeev and Lippmann-Schwinger integral equations. The resonances of the three-body system are defined as the complex-energy solutions of the homogeneous Faddeev integral equations. We show how the kernels of the integral equations should be continued analytically in order to get the resonances. As a numerical illustration a model for the three-α system is solved. Received October 1, 1999; revised February 25, 2000; accepted for publication June 30, 2000     

Faddeev approach to the three-body problem in total-angular-momentum representation

For a system of three charged particles the Faddeev equations are derived in the total-angular-momentum representation. They have the form of coupled sets of partial differential equations in three-dimensional space and can be used to develop new efficient numerical procedures to tackle the three-body Coulomb problem. The asymptotic conditions at large distances corresponding both to binary scattering and bound-state problems are presented. The behaviour of the Faddeev components near the triple and double collision points is studied.     

固氖高压物态方程的量子理论计算

 运用Hartree-Fock计算方法和原子团簇理论,研究了高压下面心立方晶体氖中的二体相互作用、三体相互作用对中心原子势能及冷能的贡献。结合零点振动能,计算得到了固氖在4~208 GPa压强范围内的等温物态方程。结果表明,在较高压强区域内,等温压缩线与高压实验数据符合得非常好;在压强超过100 GPa的区域内,计算得到的等温压缩线较目前已有的理论研究结果系统地改善并提高了3%~5%,精确地解释了固氖的高压实验数据。     

Application of the method of moments to three-body scattering

The method of moments is investigated as a possible iterative method of solution of the Faddeev equations. The method is shown to converge rapidly to the three-body wave function for the case of zero energy neutrons scattering off deuterium. It is suggested that the method should be appropriate for the treatment of three-body break-up with separable or local potentials.     

Ultracold Scattering and Universal Correlations

Particle-dimer scattering below and above the three-body threshold is studied using Faddeev differential equations. Correlations between the observables are shown and some analogies between three-nucleon and three-atom systems are discussed.     

Faddeev-Born-Oppenheimer equations for molecular three-body systems: Adiabatic calculation of 9Be

The low-lying states of ⁹Be are calculated in the α-particle cluster model. The calculation is performed using a rotationally invariant molecular formulation of the three-body problem based on the Faddeev equations, which are solved for the α + n + α system in the adiabatic limit with the α-α interaction turned off. The resulting two-centre wave function is used to formulate an ansatz for the solution of the full hamiltonian of the system where all three particles interact. Unlike the traditional molecular approach, the ansatz we propose allows for the coupling between the movement of the light particle and the rotational motion of the heavy particles. This leads to a set of coupled ordinary differential equations for the three-body wave function that has good total angular momentum and parity. Although only one Born-Oppenheimer molecular energy curve is considered, all adiabatic corrections due to Coriolis coupling effects, mass polarization and derivatives of the two-centre wave function with respect to the separation distance between the α-particles are taken into account. Comparison with exact Faddeev results is presented for the ground-state energies of ⁹Be in a model problem where the α-α interaction is turned off. The validity of the molecular approach for small mass ratios between the heavy particle and the light particle is studied in a very general framework.     

Electron scattering on two-neutron halo nuclei: The case of He

The formalism to describe electron scattering reactions on two-neutron halo nuclei is developed. The halo nucleus is described as a three-body system (core +n + n), and the wave function is obtained by solving the Faddeev equations in coordinate space. We discuss elastic and quasielastic scattering using the impulse approximation to describe the reaction mechanism. We apply the method to investigate the case of electron scattering on ⁶He. Spectral functions, response functions, and differential cross sections are calculated for both neutron knockout and knockout by the electron.     

Poincaré Invariant Three-Body Scattering

Relativistic Faddeev equations for three-body scattering are solved at arbitrary energies in terms of momentum vectors without employing a partial wave decomposition. Relativistic invariance is incorporated withing the framework of Poincaré invariant quantum mechanics. Based on a Malfliet–Tjon interaction, observables for elastic and breakup scattering are calculated and compared to non-relativistic ones.     

Two-body scattering without angular-momentum decomposition: Fully off-shell T-matrices

Two-body scattering is studied by solving the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in momentum space without angular-momentum decomposition for a local short-range interaction plus Coulomb. The screening and renormalization approach is employed to treat the Coulomb interaction. Benchmark calculations are performed by comparing our procedure with a configuration space calculation, using the standard partial-wave decomposition, for ¹²C - ¹⁰Be elastic scattering. The fully off-shell T -matrices are also calculated for the final goal of studying the three-body scattering by solving Faddeev/AGS equations.     

Faddeev-type equations with half-off-shell input

We derive new Faddeev-type equations for amplitudes directly related to the three-body transition amplitudes. They are simpler than the usual Faddeev equations in that their effective potentials are independent of the energy and only require two-body state wavefunctions and half-off-shell amplitudes as input. Moreover, after an angular momentum decomposition, the potentials can easily be made real, and the breakup amplitudes explicitly exhibit a Watson final state interaction factor.     

Tunneling dynamics of a few bosons with both two-and three-body interactions in a double-well potential

We investigate the tunneling dynamics of a few bosons with both two-and three-body interactions in a doublewell potential. Uncorrelated tunneling of Rabi oscillation with the minimum period can happen only when the two-and three-body interactions satisfy a critical condition, i.e., the effective interaction energy is minimized. When the atomic interactions are slightly away from the critical condition in the weak interaction regime, the uncorrelated tunneling exhibits collapse-revival character. When the atomic interactions are strong and far away from the critical condition, the correlated tunneling with Rabi oscillation occurs. The tunneling period(the period of collapse-revival) increases(decreases) when the rate between the two-body and three-body interactions is away from the corresponding critical condition or when the number of bosons increases. Further, the tunneling properties are understood with the help of the energy spectrum of the system. Eventually, the effect of the initial configuration on the tunneling dynamics of a few bosons for both odd and even numbers of bosons is studied, which results in intriguing consequences.     

General three-particle scattering theory

A unified treatment of three-particle scattering theory with a three-body force in addition to the usual pair interactions is developed. The relationship of the generalized AGS and Faddeev formalisms to each other as well as distinct versions of each corresponding to the two most natural techniques for handling the three-body potential are established. It is found, just as in the case without the three-particle force, that the AGS formalism appears to be more practical for considering elastic and rearrangement scattering in two-body channels. On the other hand, for scattering amplitudes with at least one three-body channel (breakup and the 3-to-3) the Faddeev version of the theory is preferable. Other advantages of each formalism depending upon the treatment of the three-body interaction are noted.