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The Born-Oppenheimer approximation for a 1D 2+1 particle system with zero-range interactions (2506.21457v1)

Published 26 Jun 2025 in math-ph, math.MP, and math.SP

Abstract: We study the self-adjoint Hamiltonian that models the quantum dynamics of a 1D three-body system consisting of a light particle interacting with two heavy ones through a zero-range force. For an attractive interaction we determine the behavior of the eigenvalues below the essential spectrum in the regime $\varepsilon\ll 1$, where $\varepsilon$ is proportional to the square root of the mass ratio. We show that the $n$-th eigenvalue behaves as $$E_{n}(\varepsilon)=-\alpha{2}+|\sigma_{n}|\,\alpha{2}\varepsilon{2/3}+O(\varepsilon)\,, $$ where $\alpha$ is a negative constant that explicitly relates to the physical parameters and $\sigma_{n}$ is either the $n$-th extremum or the $n$-th zero of the Airy function Ai, depending on the kind (respectively, bosons or fermions) of the two heavy particles. Additionally, we prove that the essential spectrum coincides with the half-line $\left[-\frac{\alpha2}{4+\varepsilon{2}}\,,+\infty\right)$.

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