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arXiv:nucl-th/0408073

The in-medium few-body problem

S. A. Sofianos, M. Beyer

Published Aug 31, 2004• 2 citations
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Abstract

We are concerned with few-particle correlations in a fermionic system at finite temperature and density. Within the many-body Green functions formalism the description of correlations is provided by the Dyson equation approach that leads to effective few-body equations. They contain the dominant medium effects, which are self energy corrections and the Pauli blocking. Hence the effective two-body interactions between quasiparticles are momentum/energy-dependent and therefore they can be usesed in the medium modified, momentum space, integral AGS equations for three- and four-body systems. To investigate correlations and clusters beyond four-body, we employ, instead, the configuration space two-variable integro-differential equations (IDEA) for $A$-body bound systems which are based on Hyperspherical Harmonics and the Faddeev decomposition of the wave function in two-body amplitudes. This requires the transformation of the energy dependent two-body interactions to equivalent local, energy independent, ones. To achieve this we use inverse scattering techniques the resulting interactions being, on-- and (to all practical purposes) off--shell equivalent to the energy dependent potentials. In this way we obtain binding energy results for the 2--, 3--, 4--, and 16--particle in a medium at a finite temperature and various densities. Several aspects of the problem are discussed and the behavior of the potential surfaces obtained in the extreme adiabatic approximation, below and above the Mott transition, is investigated.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0408073

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We are concerned with few-particle correlations in a fermionic system at finite temperature and density. Within the many-body Green functions formalism the description of correlations is provided by the Dyson equation approach that leads to effective few-body equations. They contain the dominant medium effects, which are self energy corrections and the Pauli blocking. Hence the effective two-body interactions between quasiparticles are momentum/energy-dependent and therefore they can be usesed in the medium modified, momentum space, integral AGS equations for three- and four-body systems. To investigate correlations and clusters beyond four-body, we employ, instead, the configuration space two-variable integro-differential equations (IDEA) for AAA-body bound systems which are based on Hyperspherical Harmonics and the Faddeev decomposition of the wave function in two-body amplitudes. This requires the transformation of the energy dependent two-body interactions to equivalent local, energy independent, ones. To achieve this we use inverse scattering techniques the resulting interactions being, on-- and (to all practical purposes) off--shell equivalent to the energy dependent potentials. In this way we obtain binding energy results for the 2--, 3--, 4--, and 16--particle in a medium at a finite temperature and various densities. Several aspects of the problem are discussed and the behavior of the potential surfaces obtained in the extreme adiabatic approximation, below and above the Mott transition, is investigated.
We formulate a method to study two-body correlations in a system of N identical bosons interacting via central two-body potentials. We use the adiabatic hyperspherical approach and assume a Faddeev-like decomposition of the wave function. For a fixed hyperradius we derive variationally an optimal integro-differential equation for the hyperangular eigenvalue and wave function. This equation reduces substantially by assuming the interaction range much smaller than the size of the N-body system. At most, one-dimensional integrals then remain. We view a Bose-Einstein condensate pictorially as a structure in the landscape of the potential given as a function of the one-dimensional hyperradial coordinate. The quantum states of the condensate can be located in one of the two potential minima. We derive and discuss properties of the solutions and illustrate with numerical results. The correlations lower the interaction energy substantially. The new multibody Efimov states are solutions independent of details of the two-body potential. We compare with mean-field results and available experimental data.
The generalized off-shell scattering of pairs of constituent fermions embedded in an infinite system of identical particles having thermodynamic properties characterized by arbitrary values of the temperature and chemical potential, is examined using a temperature-dependent Green's-function formalism, which treats particle-particle and hole-hole excitations symmetrically. The important features which emerge are (i) the possible existence of bound-state pairs (of quasiparticles which are linear combinations of particle and hole states) which correspond to poles in the scattering amplitude at negative total energies depending parametrically on the properties of the medium and the total momentum of the interacting pair; (ii) a generalized unitarity condition from which one obtains a parametrization of the on-shell positive-energy scattering amplitude by a set of real effective phase shifts; (iii) that these phase shifts completely determine the large-separation asymptotic behavior of the scattering (positive energy) pair wave functions in a manner which is form equivalent to two-particle scattering in free space; and (iv) that the small- and large-momentum asymptotic limits of the phase shifts are related to the number of bound-state pairs in the medium via an analogous, but modified, form of Levinson's theorem for free scattering. The effects of these pairing singularities on the single-particle excitation spectrum, and hence on the thermodynamic behavior of the system are outlined.
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The ground-state energy and low-energy excitations of single-particle character of an infinite medium of fermions are discussed with the aid of time-dependent Green's functions, which are convenient generalizations of the exact particle correlation functions in the ground state of NNN particles. The power series development for the one- and two-particle functions, under the restriction to two-body forces, is derived and described by means of Feynman diagrams. The derivation of the linked-cluster expansion for the energy then follows immediately. The equivalence to previous versions is established. The one-particle function is examined in particular detail, and it is shown that the poles of its space-time Fourier transform studied as a function of the energy variable, for fixed momentum, determined the (N+1N+1N+1)-particle and ($N\ensuremath{-}1$)-particle excited states which have single-particle character. For a reasonable assumption about the full spectrum of excited states, it is found that for the interacting system, single-particle excitations with a real energy occur only at the Fermi momentum. It is pointed out that the corresponding energy, termed the perturbed Fermi energy, equals the binding energy per particle in the ground state of NNN particles for a saturating system at equilibrium density.It is shown, finally, that the entire structure of the theory may be carried over to the case of finite temperature, requiring only a redefinition of the Green's functions. The analogy is constructed from a discussion of the internal energy.
Integral equations of the Watson-Faddeev type, developed in the context of few-body nonrelativistic scattering theory, are shown to play an important role in the structure analysis of many-body Green's functions and in variational techniques for the approximate determination of these Green's functions. Such equations sum up an infinite chain of few-body correlations. Those correlations which are not of this form, i.e., the intrinsic many-body correlations, are accounted for by the appearance of an effective (or "renormalized") interaction, as can be seen by direct transformation of the exact Martin-Schwinger equations for the Green's functions. For a given choice of effective interaction, the few-body correlation functions must be determined self-consistently. The Schwinger variational principle, originally developed for linear integral equations, is nevertheless the key element in a variational formulation of the nonlinear equations encountered here. For simplicity we confine our attention to equations which determine the two-body Green's function, although the entire procedure can be generalized to higher orders.