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On the renormalization of contact interactions for the configuration-interaction method in two-dimensions

Rontani, Massimo ; Eriksson, G. LU ; Åberg, S. LU and Reimann, S. M. LU (2017) In Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 50(6).
Abstract

The configuration interaction (CI) method for calculating the exact eigenstates of a quantum-mechanical few-body system is problematic when applied to particles interacting through contact forces. In dimensions higher than one the approach fails due to the pathology of the Dirac δ-potential, making it impossible to reach convergence by gradually increasing the size of the Hilbert space. However, this problem may be cured in a rather simple manner by renormalizing the strength of the contact potential when diagonalizing in a truncated Hilbert space. One hereby relies on the comparison of the CI results to the two-body ground-state energy obtained by the exact solution of the Schrödinger equation for a regularized contact interaction. We... (More)

The configuration interaction (CI) method for calculating the exact eigenstates of a quantum-mechanical few-body system is problematic when applied to particles interacting through contact forces. In dimensions higher than one the approach fails due to the pathology of the Dirac δ-potential, making it impossible to reach convergence by gradually increasing the size of the Hilbert space. However, this problem may be cured in a rather simple manner by renormalizing the strength of the contact potential when diagonalizing in a truncated Hilbert space. One hereby relies on the comparison of the CI results to the two-body ground-state energy obtained by the exact solution of the Schrödinger equation for a regularized contact interaction. We discuss here a scheme that provides cutoff-independent few-body physical observables. The method is applied to a few-body system of ultracold atoms confined by a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator.

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configuration interaction method, degenerate Bose gases, degenerate Fermi gases, exact diagonalization, Fermi pseudopotential, few-body physics, two-dimensional harmonic trap
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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
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50
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6
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065301
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IOP Publishing
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0953-4075
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10.1088/1361-6455/aa606a
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English
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  series       = {{Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics}},
  title        = {{On the renormalization of contact interactions for the configuration-interaction method in two-dimensions}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa606a}},
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