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Canadian Journal of Chemistry

Explorations of many-body relativistic wave equations within a one-dimensional model

Marcel Nooijen

Published Oct 1, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

A one-dimensional analog that reflects many of the features of the many-body Dirac equation is considered. The model can be solved numerically using a convenient finite basis discrete variable representation. Both an (unbound) harmonic oscillator potential and a (bound) inverse Gaussian one-particle potential are discussed for interacting particles. In a second thread in the paper, the mass term is neglected in the model many-body Dirac equation, and it is shown that the original equation, which has 2 N coupled components for N particles can then be reduced to 2 N decoupled one-component equations, which can be solved “analytically” for arbitrary many particles interacting through central two-body potentials.

DOI
10.1139/v09-119

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