Time delay and resonances in potential scattering
Time delay and resonances in potential scattering
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势散射中的时间延迟和共振
DOI:
10.1088/0305-4470/39/29/016
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发表时间:
2006
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通讯作者:
K B Sinha
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作者:
W. Amrein;K B Sinha
We present stationary expressions for the on-shell time delay operator and for its trace in quantum-mechanical potential scattering. The trace of this operator is shown to represent the time delay for a monoenergetic and well-collimated beam of initial states. For exponentially decaying potentials the total scattering cross section and the trace of the on-shell time delay operator have analytic extensions to complex energies, with poles at most at the usual resonance poles (poles of the analytically continued S-matrix) in the lower half plane and at their mirror images with respect to the real axis. At real energies close to such a pole both the scattering cross section and the time delay are approximately of Breit–Wigner type, the sign of the time delay being related to that of the virial. These results corroborate the idea that a resonance should show up through a peak in the scattering cross section and a large (though positive) time delay.