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Semiclassics in a system without classical limit: The few-body spectrum of two interacting bosons in one dimension
Benjamin Geiger1, Juan-Diego Urbina1, Quirin Hummel1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We present a semiclassical study of the spectrum of a few-body system consisting of two short-range interacting bosonic particles in one dimension, a particular case of a general class of integrable many-body systems where the energy spectrum is given by the solution of algebraic transcendental equations. By an exact mapping between δ-potentials and boundary conditions on the few-body wave functions, we are able to extend previous semiclassical results for single-particle systems with mixed boundary conditions to the two-body problem. The semiclassical approach allows us to derive explicit analytical results for the smooth part of the two-body density of states that are in excellent agreement with numerical calculations. It further enables us to include the effect of bound states in the attractive case. Remarkably, for the particular case of two particles in one dimension, the discrete energy levels obtained through a requantization condition of the smooth density of states are essentially in perfect agreement with the exact ones.
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