Zusammenfassung
Near-threshold properties of bound and continuum states in a deep potential with an attractive tail depend essentially on a few `tail parameters', which are determined by the properties of the potential tail beyond the region of r-values where WKB wavefunctions are accurate solutions of the Schrödinger equation. One of these tail parameters is a length parameter which defines the singular ...
Zusammenfassung
Near-threshold properties of bound and continuum states in a deep potential with an attractive tail depend essentially on a few `tail parameters', which are determined by the properties of the potential tail beyond the region of r-values where WKB wavefunctions are accurate solutions of the Schrödinger equation. One of these tail parameters is a length parameter which defines the singular contribution to the level density just below threshold and the reflectivity of the tail of the potential just above threshold; another is a phase difference which, together with the length parameter, determines the mean scattering length. The near-threshold quantization rule and the actual scattering length are determined by the tail parameters together with a dimensionless constant depending on the zero-energy value of the WKB action integral. We study potentials with tails consisting of two inverse-power terms, V(r)~-C_α/r^α-C_{α_1}/r^{α_1},α_1>α>2 and we derive exact analytical expressions for the tail parameters in the special case α_1 = 2(α-1). This enables us to demonstrate the effect of a significant non-homogeneity of the potential tail on the results derived previously for homogeneous tails.
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