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View SchemaA Neutral Atom and a Charged Wire: From Elastic scattering to Absorption
| Authors | M. Bawin, S. A. Coon |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0012039 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0012039 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.034701 |
Abstract
We solve the problem of a neutral atom interacting with a charged wire, giving rise to an attractive 1/r^2 potential in two dimensions. We show how a suitable average over all possible self-adjoint extensions of the radial Schroedinger Hamiltonian eventually leads to the classical formula for absorption of the atom, a formula shown to be in agreement with a recent experiment.
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