Asymptotic completeness of long-range \(N\)-body quantum systems
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Asymptotic completeness of long-range \(N\)-body quantum systems
zbMATH Open document ID: 0844.47005
DOI: 10.2307/2946615
author: Jan Dereziński
published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series
publication date: 1996-08-29T00:00:00Z
review text: Asymptotic completeness, in the 2-body case, says that all states of the system fall into two categories: bound states and scattering states. The proof normally makes use of the classical phase space and the Enss method. In the \(N\)-body case, there may also be bound states for subsystems while the remaining constituents asymptotically evolve as free particles. For general \(N\) and short-range potentials, the proof of the existence of all wave operators and of asymptotic completeness was first given by Sigal and Soffer. Then Graf was able to replace phase-space analysis by a new type of analysis in configuration space. In a previous paper and in the present work, Dereziński extends Graf's method to the long-range case. For the construction of wave operators pertaining to each cluster of particles one has to modify the cluster hamiltonian appropriately in order to cope with the long-range interaction. One of the main results, proven in this article, is the existence of the ``asymptotic velocities'' \(P_\pm\) for \(t\to \pm \infty\). For the Enss condition (\(\mu> \sqrt{3}-1\), \(\mu\) is some exponent describing the decay of interactions at spatial infinity), Dereziński proves asymptotic completeness using the modified wave operators.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 47A40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81U10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 47N50
zbMATH DE Number: 490546
zbMATH Keywords: 2-body case
zbMATH Keywords: bound states
zbMATH Keywords: scattering states
zbMATH Keywords: classical phase space
zbMATH Keywords: Enss method
zbMATH Keywords: short-range potentials
zbMATH Keywords: asymptotic completeness
zbMATH Keywords: long-range case
zbMATH Keywords: cluster hamiltonian
zbMATH Keywords: modified wave operators
reviewed by: Gert Roepstorff
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2946615
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