The complex scaling method for many-body resonances and its applications to three-body resonances

Resonance phenomena in quantum physics are very familiar in many fields of physics, but we have not yet obtained a complete physical understanding, mathematical description or computational treatment, especially in the case of many-body resonances. Recently, in experimental developments concerning unstable nuclear physics and heavy-ion nuclear reactions, much interest has been concentrated on many-body resonance problems. In the last quarter century, theoretical and mathematical treatments of many-body resonances have experienced great development through application of the complex scaling method (CSM). We can now treat resonant states of three-body systems in the same way as those of two-body systems. In this article, starting from the definition of a resonant state and discussion of its norm, we present a summary of recent studies of CSM to treat many-body resonances and applications to three-body resonant states in two-neutron halo nuclei and three-cluster systems. (author)