It is proven that if J, h are bounded continuous functions and H is an N-body Schrödinger operator then there exists [Formula: see text]. Limits of this form are used to study the N-body long range scattering.
The universal character of non-relativistic large three-body bosonic systems is addressed, with focus on highly interesting situations that occur in low-energy nuclear and atomic physics. Investigations on the trajectory of the first excited Efimov state, in a renormalized zero-range three-body model for a system with two bound and one virtual two-body subsystems, are reported. The approach is applied to n-n-18C, where the n - n virtual energy and the three-body ground state are kept fixed. It is shown that the real part of the elastic s-wave phase-shift ([Formula: see text]) presents a zero, or a pole in [Formula: see text], when the system has an Efimov excited or virtual state. A brief discussion is given on the relevance of the approach for ultracold atom physics with tunable scattering lengths.
We give a full and self contained account of the basic results in N-body scattering theory which emerged over the last ten years: The existence and completeness of scattering states for potentials decreasing like r-μ, [Formula: see text]. Our approach is a synthesis of earlier work and of new ideas. Global conditions on the potentials are imposed only to define the dynamics. Asymptotic completeness is derived from the fact that the mean square diameter of the system diverges like t2 as t → ±∞ for any orbit ψt which is separated in energy from thresholds and eigenvalues (a generalized version of Mourre's theorem involving only the tails of the potentials at large distances). We introduce new propagation observables which considerably simplify the phase–space analysis. As a topic of general interest we describe a method of commutator expansions.