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Clara Tourbez

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arXiv2026

Perturbative results for fractional quantum mechanics

The fractional Schr\"odinger equation is studied with a kinetic energy that slightly deviates from the usual nonrelativistic form. The harmonic oscillator and the Kepler problem are both treated in the context of small perturbations. The usual perturbation theory is used and compared with the envelope theory. The analytical results show good agreement between both methods, indicating possible future developments for many-body systems. A possible connection with experimental observations is briefly discussed.

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arXiv2025

Diquark size effects in the quark-diquark approximation for baryons

Baryons can be described within several theoretical frameworks. Among them, the constituent approach is widely used. In this context, we aim to evaluate the accuracy of a particular model of baryons: the quark-diquark approximation. It consists in separating the three-body system into two subsequent two-body ones: a pair of two quarks, the diquark, and a second system consisting of the diquark and the third quark. This approximation is widely used, but its accuracy is rarely evaluated. The goal of this work is to perform this evaluation by comparing the quark-diquark model with a three-body model, both using the same semi-relativistic interaction. The baryon masses and some characteristic distances are computed and analysed within both approaches. Additionally, an original procedure to establish the quark-diquark potential will be presented with the aim to increase the precision of this approximation. It is shown that a diquark must not necessarily be compact to obtain good baryon masses.

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arXiv2025

Upper bounds for critical coupling constants for binding some quantum many-body systems

When particles interact via two-body short-range central potential wells, binding can occur for some critical values of the coupling constants. Using the envelope theory, upper bounds for critical coupling constants are computed for quantum nonrelativistic systems containing identical particles and systems containing identical particles plus a different one.

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arXiv2024

Tests of the envelope theory for three-body forces

Many-body forces, and specially three-body forces, are sometimes a relevant ingredient in various fields, such as atomic, nuclear or hadronic physics. As their precise structure is generally difficult to uncover or to implement, phenomenological effective forces are often used in practice. A form commonly used for a many-body variable is the square-root of the sum of two-body variables. Even in this case, the problem can be very difficult to treat numerically. But this kind of many-body forces can be handled at the same level of difficulty than two-body forces by the envelope theory. The envelope theory is a very efficient technique to compute approximate, but reliable, solutions of many-body systems, specially for identical particles. The quality of this technique is tested here for various three-body forces with non-relativistic systems composed of three identical particles. The energies, the eigenfunctions, and some observables are compared with the corresponding accurate results computed with a numerical variational method.

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