Published October 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Two-body Coulomb problems with sources

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional del Sur and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, 8000 Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Moleculaire et des Collisions, Universite Paul Verlaine-Metz, F-57078 Metz (France)

Description

The two-body Coulomb Schroedinger equation with different types of nonhomogeneities are studied. The particular solution of these nonhomogeneous equations is expressed in closed form in terms of a two-variable hypergeometric function. A particular representation of the latter allows one to study efficiently the solution in the asymptotic limit of large values of the coordinate and hence the associated physics. Simple sources are first considered, and a complete analysis of scattering and bound states is performed. The solutions corresponding to more general (arbitrary) sources are then provided and written in terms of more general hypergeometric functions.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 042706-042706.8
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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