arXiv · cond-mat/0610314
Energy-dependent effective interactions for dilute many-body systems
Abstract
We address the issue of determining an effective two-body interaction for mean-field calculations of energies of many-body systems. We show that the effective interaction is proportional to the phase shift, and demonstrate this result in the quasiclassical approximation when there is a trapping potential in addition to the short-range interaction between a pair of particles. We calculate numerically energy levels for the case of an interaction with a short-range square-well and a harmonic trapping potential and show that the numerical results agree well with the analytical expression. We derive a generalized Gross--Pitaevskii equation which includes effective range corrections and discuss the form of the electron--atom effective interaction to be used in calculations of Rydberg atoms and molecules.
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A. Collin, P. Massignan, C. J. Pethick. 2006-10-11. Energy-dependent effective interactions for dilute many-body systems. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.75.013615
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