Lorenzo Cimino, Clara Tourbez, Cyrille Chevalier, Gwendolyn Lacroix, Claude Semay
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Abstract
Many-body forces, and specially three-body forces, are sometimes a relevant ingredient in various fields, such as atomic, nuclear or hadronic physics. As their precise structure is generally difficult to uncover or to implement, phenomenological effective forces are often used in practice. A form commonly used for a many-body variable is the square-root of the sum of two-body variables. Even in this case, the problem can be very difficult to treat numerically. But this kind of many-body forces can be handled at the same level of difficulty than two-body forces by the envelope theory. The envelope theory is a very efficient technique to compute approximate, but reliable, solutions of many-body systems, specially for identical particles. The quality of this technique is tested here for various three-body forces with non-relativistic systems composed of three identical particles. The energies, the eigenfunctions, and some observables are compared with the corresponding accurate results computed with a numerical variational method.
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The journal Few-Body Systems presents original research work – experimental, theoretical and computational – investigating the behavior of any classical or quantum system consisting of a small number of well-defined constituent structures. The focus is on the research methods, properties, and results characteristic of few-body systems. Examples of few-body systems range from few-quark states, light nuclear and hadronic systems; few-electron atomic systems and small molecules; and specific systems in condensed matter and surface physics (such as quantum dots and highly correlated trapped systems), up to and including large-scale celestial structures.
Systems for which an equivalent one-body description is available or can be designed, and large systems for which specific many-body methods are needed are outside the scope of the journal.
The journal is devoted to the publication of all aspects of few-body systems research and applications. While concentrating on few-body systems well-suited to rigorous solutions, the journal also encourages interdisciplinary contributions that foster common approaches and insights, introduce and benchmark the use of novel tools (e.g. machine learning) and develop relevant applications (e.g. few-body aspects in quantum technologies).