Three-body problem in Fermi gases with short-range interparticle interaction

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Petrov, D S ^a,b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; BINDING ENERGY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; PROBABILITY; VECTORS;

ATOM-DIMER INTERACTION; BORN-OPPENHEIMER APPROXIMATION; FERMI GASES; HANKEL FUNCTION; HERMITIAN OPERATOR; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SHORT RANGE INTERPARTICLE INTERACTION; THREE BODY RECOMBINATION;

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EID: 0037243507     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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