PHYSICAL REVIEW D 103, 094520 (2021)
Charged particles interaction in both a finite volume and a uniform magnetic field
Peng Guo 1,2,* and Vladimir Gasparian 1 1Department of Physics and Engineering, California State University, Bakersfield, California 93311, USA 2Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
(Received 5 January 2021; accepted 10 May 2021; published 27 May 2021)
A formalism for describing charged particles interaction in both a finite volume and a uniform magnetic field is presented. In the case of short-range interaction between charged particles, we show that the factorization between short-range physics and finite volume long-range correlation effect is possible; a Lüscher formulalike quantization condition is thus obtained.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.094520
I. INTRODUCTION which provides a relation between energy levels in a trap and the infinite volume scattering phase shift. In finite In recent years, a great effort in the nuclear and hadron volume in LQCD computation, such a relation in the elastic physics community has been put into constructing the two-body sector is known as the Lüscher formula [1], scattering dynamics of few-particle interactions from the which shows a clear factorization of short-range dynamics discrete bound state energy spectrum that is computed in and long-range correlation effects because of the periodic various types of traps, such as the commonly used periodic boundary condition. The short-range dynamics and long- finite box in lattice QCD (LQCD) and the harmonic range correlations are described by the physical scattering oscillator trap in nuclear physics computation. The ultimate phase shift and Lüscher’s zeta function respectively. goal is of course to study and explore the nature of particle Lüscher’s formula has been proving very successful interactions that plays an essential role in many fields of in the LQCD community, and it has been quickly extended physical science, such as nuclear physics and astrophysics. into both coupled-channel and few-body sectors, However, the current state-of-art ab initio computations in see [2–41]. In nuclear physics where a harmonic oscillator nuclear and hadron physics are normally performed in a trap is commonly used, such a relation is given by the harmonic oscillator trap and in a finite volume respectively. Busch-Englert-Rzażewski-Wilkens (BERW) formula [42– Instead of computing few-body scattering amplitudes, the 53]. In addition to the periodic boundary condition and discrete bound state energy levels are usually directly harmonic trap, other types of traps or boundary conditions measured and extracted from these ab initio computations. are also commonly used in different physics fields, such as Therefore, finding a relation that converts a discrete bound the hard wall trap [54,55]. Regardless of the difference state energy spectrum into a continuum scattering state is a among various traps, the same strategy is shared: as the two key step. physical scales are clearly separated, a closed asymptotic In fact, relating the energy shift caused by particle form can be found, in which short-range dynamics is interactions to the on-shell scattering parameters such as described by a scattering phase shift and the long-range phase shift has a long history across many fields in physics. effect is given by an analytic form that describes how the In general cases, the dynamics of particles interaction in propagation of particles is affected by the trap, e.g., traps is associated with the infinite volume off-shell Lüscher’s zeta function in a periodic boundary condition. reaction amplitudes in a highly nontrivial way. In the present work, we aim to establish a similar relation Fortunately, when the separation of two physics scales, to Lüscher’s and the BERW formula for the charged the size of trap and the range of particles interaction, is particles interacting in both a uniform magnetic field and clearly established, a simple asymptotic form can be found, a periodic box. We remark that only a short-range inter- action which represents nuclear force or hadron interactions *[email protected] is considered in this work; the Coulomb interaction has not been incorporated in the current framework yet. We also Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of emphasize that the Coulomb repulsion may be important the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. – Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to near threshold [56 67], especially since the long-range the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, nature of the Coulomb interaction may complicate the and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. factorization of physics at different scales and distort the
2470-0010=2021=103(9)=094520(18) 094520-1 Published by the American Physical Society PENG GUO and VLADIMIR GASPARIAN PHYS. REV. D 103, 094520 (2021) asymptotic wave functions, the Coulomb interaction must ð∇ þ iqAðrÞÞ2 Hˆ ¼ − r ; ð Þ be included in future work. We will show that with only a r 2μ 3 short-range potential, the factorization of short-range phys- ics and the long-range correlation effect is possible. Hence where μ and q denote the reduced mass and charge of two a relation in a compact form that relates the discrete energy charged particles respectively. spectrum to scattering phase shifts can be found. Such a relation may be useful for the study of a charged hadron A. Magnetic periodic boundary condition πþ system such as the system in LQCD computation. In In a periodic finite box, the discrete translation invari- finite volume, in order to preserve translation symmetry of ance is broken by a coordinate dependent vector potential, a system in a magnetic field, the magnetic flux through a perpendicular surface of a cubic box to a uniform magnetic Ayðr þ nLÞ¼AyðrÞþBnL · ex: field must be 2π multiplied by a rational number np=nq, where np and nq are integers and relatively prime to each In order to maintain the discrete translation symmetry in a other. Therefore, the original energy level without a uniform magnetic field, the conventional translation oper- magnetic field is split into nq sublevels due to the ator must be generalized to the magnetic translation application of the magnetic field. We also remark that operator, the ultimate goal of the current work is to set up a ˆ ið−i∇rþqAðrÞ−qB×rÞ·nL foundation for exploring the possibility of the topological TrðnLÞ¼e : ð4Þ edge type states [68–70] in lattice QCD in future work. However, by using background-field methods in lattice Hence QCD [71–74], the finite volume energy levels of particles ˆ iqBryex·nL interacting in a magnetic field background may also be TrðnLÞψ εðrÞ¼e ψ εðr þ nLÞ: ð5Þ used to determine the coefficient of the leading local four- nucleon operator contributing to the neutral- and charged- In addition, to warrant a state remain translational current breakup of the deuteron. invariant through a closed path, the magnetic flux through The paper is organized as follows. The general formal- an enlarged closed path in an x-y plane that is defined by ism of charged bosons interaction in both a finite volume magnetic unit vectors and a uniform magnetic field is presented in details in Sec. II. The S-wave contribution and regularization of nqLex × Ley × Lez; ultraviolet divergence are discussed in Sec. III. A summary is given in Sec. IV. must be quantized, see Refs. [75,76],
2 qBnqL ¼ 2πnp; ð6Þ II. FINITE VOLUME DYNAMICS OF CHARGED BOSONS IN A UNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELD where np and nq are two relatively prime integers. In this section, we briefly summarize the dynamics of Therefore, the discrete translation in a enlarged magnetic ˆ charged bosons interacting in both a finite periodic box and unit box leaves the Hamiltonian invariant, and TrðnBLÞ a uniform magnetic field. The uniform magnetic field is forms a magnetic translation group, where chosen along the z axis, B ¼ Bez, and the Landau gauge for the vector potential is adopted in this work, nB ¼ nxnqex þ nyey þ nzez;nx;y;z ∈ Z: ð7Þ
According to Bloch’s theorem, in a periodic box, AðxÞ¼Bð0;x;0Þ: ð1Þ ˆ periodicity of a system requires that TrðnBLÞψ εðrÞ can only differ from ψ εðrÞ by a phase factor, which can be The complete presentation and more rigorous discussion chosen as are given in the Appendixes A and B. The dynamics of the relative motion of two charged iPB n L e 2 · B ; identical nonrelativistic spinless particles in a uniform magnetic field is described by the Schrödinger equation, where ðHˆ þ VðrÞÞψ ðrÞ¼εψ ðrÞ; ð Þ r ε ε 2 2π nx PB ¼ ex þ nyey þ nzez ;nx;y;z ∈ Z: ð8Þ L nq where ψ εðrÞ and ε are the wave function and energy for the relative motion of a two charged boson system. The Hence the magnetic periodic boundary condition is ˆ Hamiltonian operator Hr is defined by given by
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PB i ·nBL −iqBryex·nBL L ðxÞ ψ εðr þ nBLÞ¼e 2 e ψ εðrÞ: ð9Þ where n is the Laguerre polynomial, and
0 0 0 The magnetic periodic boundary condition can also be ρ ¼ rxex þ ryey; ρ ¼ rxex þ ryey obtained by considering a separable form of a total wave function, see Appendix A2. are relative coordinates defined in the x-y plane.
B. Finite volume Lippmann-Schwinger equation and 2. Quantization condition with short-range interaction quantization condition The discrete bound state energy spectrum can be found as the eigen-energy solutions of the homogeneous LS 1. Finite volume Lippmann-Schwinger equation equation in Eq. (10). The partial wave expansion in an The Schrödinger equation and magnetic periodic boun- angular momentum basis is commonly used in describing dary condition in Eq. (2) and Eq. (9) together can be an infinite volume scattering state. However in a magnetic replaced by the finite volume homogeneous Lippmann- field, due to the asymmetry of the magnetic Hamiltonian in Schwinger (LS) equation, x-y plane and along the z axis, the angular momentum basis Z in spherical coordinates is in fact not the most convenient 0 ðLÞ 0 0 0 basis in describing dynamics of charged particles in a ψ εðrÞ¼ dr GB ðr; r ; εÞVðr Þψ εðr Þ; ð10Þ 3 uniform magnetic field. Nevertheless, it can be done in LB principle. For the sake of the consistency of presentation in where the volume integration over the magnetic unit cell is both finite volume and infinite volume dynamics, let us defined by consider the partial wave expansion of Eq. (10), which yields Z Z nqL Z L Z L 2 2 2 Z dr0 ¼ dr0 dr0 dr0 : ð Þ X n L x y z 11 ðLÞ 02 0 ðB;LÞ 0 0 ðLÞ 0 L3 − q −L −L ψ ðrÞ¼ r dr G ðr; r ; εÞV 0 ðr Þψ ðr Þ: B 2 2 2 lm lm;l0m0 l l0m0 L3 l0m0 B ’ GðLÞ The finite volume magnetic Green s function B satisfies ð15Þ the dynamical equation The purpose of this work is to find a Lüscher formulalike ˆ ðLÞ 0 ðε − HrÞGB ðr; r ; εÞ simple relation that connects short-range physics associated X PB VðrÞ −i ·nBL iqBryex·nBL 0 with particles interaction and the long-range effect ¼ e 2 e δðr − r þ nBLÞ: ð12Þ n generated by the finite volume and magnetic field. Also B consider the fact that such a relation is the result of clear The solution of a finite volume magnetic Green’s separation of two physical scales: (1) the range of potential ðLÞ VðrÞ and (2) the size of a trap or finite volume. When the function GB can be constructed from its infinite volume Gð∞Þ two scales are clearly separated, the short- and long-range counterpart B by physics can be factorized, and a compact relation as the
ðLÞ 0 leading order contribution can be found by studying the GB ðr; r ; εÞ X asymptotic behavior of the wave function [8,24]. Therefore, ð∞Þ PB 0 0 i ·nBL −iqBryex·nBL for our purpose, it is sufficient to consider the zero-range ¼ GB ðr; r þ nBL; εÞe 2 e n potential, XB −iPB n L iqBr e n L ð∞Þ 0 2lþ1 2 3 ¼ e 2 · B e y x· B G ðr þ n L; r ; εÞ: ð Þ δðrÞ 2 Γ ðl þ Þ B B 13 V ðrÞ → V 2 ; ð Þ l l 2 3 2l 16 nB r ð2πÞ r
Details of the construction can be found in Appendix A4. see Appendix B for a more rigorous discussion. The analytic expression of an infinite volume magnetic Equation (15) is thus turned into an algebraic equation, ð∞Þ Green’s function G is given by B ðLÞ X 2l0þ1 2 0 3 ψ lm ðrÞ 2 Γ ðl þ 2Þ ¼ Vl0 ð∞Þ 2μqB iqB 0 0 qB 0 2 l 3 0 − ðrxþrxÞðry−ryÞ − jρ−ρ j r 0 0 ð2πÞ GB ðr;r ;εÞ¼− e 2 e 4 l m 2π pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi GðB;LÞ ðr; r0; εÞ ðLÞ 0 ∞ qB 0 2 i 2με−2qBðnþ1Þjr −r0 j lm;l0m0 ψ 0 0 ðr Þ XiL ð jρ − ρ j Þe 2 z z l m : ð Þ n 2 qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi × l 0l0 0l0 17 × ; r r r r0→0 n¼0 1 2 2με − 2qBðn þ 2Þ Hence the quantization condition of the discrete energy ð Þ 14 spectrum is given by
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2 0 3 ðB;LÞ 0 δ 0 0 Γ ðl þ ÞG 0 0 ðr;r ;εÞ III. S-WAVE CONTRIBUTION AND CONTACT lm;l m − 2 lm;l m ¼ 0: ð Þ det 2lþ1 3 l 0l0 18 INTERACTION 2 Vl ð2πÞ r r r;r0→0 As was already mentioned in the previous section, the angular momentum basis in general is not a convenient Under the same assumption of the zero-range approxi- basis for the dynamics of charged particles in a uniform V mation given in Eq. (16), the potential strength l is related magnetic field. The partial wave expansion of the finite to the infinite volume two-body scattering phase shift volume magnetic Green’s function and ultraviolet regu- δ ðk Þ l ε by larization can be tedious in general. Fortunately, if only the S -wave contribution is dominant, the formalism can be ð4πÞ2 22lþ1Γðl þ 1ÞΓðl þ 3Þ worked out nicely. In this section, only a contact interaction þ 2 2 ¼ −k2lþ1 δ ðk Þ; 2lþ1 ε cot l ε potential 2μVl πr r→0 ð Þ V 19 VðrÞ¼ 0 δðrÞðÞ 4π 23 see detailed discussions in Appendix B. The relative is used, which may be considered as the leading order k momentum ε in infinite volume is related to the relative contribution of chiral effective field theory and may be ε þ finite volume energy by suitable for the few-body system, such as π interactions in finite volume. k2 QB 1 P2 þ P2 With a contact interaction, the finite volume quantization ε ¼ ε þ △E ; △E ¼ n þ − x y ; 2μ R R M 2 2M condition is simply given by
ð20Þ 4π ðLÞ ¼ GB ð0; 0; εÞ: ð24Þ V0 where △ER is the result of quantization of center-of-mass In infinite volume, V0 is related to the S-wave scattering (CM) motion in a uniform magnetic field. amplitude by Eliminating Vl, Eqs. (18) and (19) together yield a Lüscher formulalike simple relation, 4π ð∞Þ 2μkε 1 − G ð0; kεÞ¼− ; ð25Þ V0 4π t0ðkεÞ ðB;LÞ det ½δlm;l0m0 cot δlðkεÞ − M 0 0 ðεÞ ¼ 0; ð21Þ lm;l m where 1 where t0ðkεÞ¼ ; cot δ0ðkεÞ − i
ð∞Þ 2l0þ3 2 0 3 ðB;LÞ 0 ’ G ð0; k Þ 2 Γ ðl þ Þ G 0 0 ðr; r ; εÞ and infinite volume Green s function ε is MðB;LÞ ðεÞ¼− 2 lm;l m lm;l0m0 2lþ1 l 0l0 given by 2μkε ð2πÞ r r r;r0→0 Z 2lþ1 1 3 2 Γðl þ ÞΓðl þ Þ 1 dp 1 2μkε 2μ 2 2 Gð∞Þð0;k Þ¼ ¼ −i − : ð Þ − δlm;l0m0 : ε 3 2 2 26 π 2lþ1 ð2πÞ kε p 4π 4πr ðkεrÞ r→0 2μ − 2μ r→0 ð22Þ Thus, the quantization condition is simply given by
ðB;LÞ 4π ðLÞ 1 The second term in M 0 0 plays the role of the regulator δ ðk Þ¼− G ð0; 0; εÞ − : ð Þ lm;l m cot 0 ε 2μk B k r 27 of ultraviolet (UV) divergence and will cancel out the UV ε ε r→0 divergence in the finite volume magnetic Green’s function, ðLÞ The magnetic Green’s function GB ð0; 0; εÞ is a real MðB;LÞ so that lm;l0m0 is ultimately free of UV divergence. In function of ε. The UV divergent term general, the regularization and isolation of UV divergence ’ 1 in higher partial waves of a finite volume magnetic Green s − function is a highly nontrivial task. Fortunately, it can be kεr r→0 accomplished rather neatly for S-wave, hence, only the S-wave contribution will be considered in Sec. III. The plays the role of the UV counterterm that cancels out the ðLÞ regularization of UV divergence will be worked out UV divergent term in GB ð0; 0; εÞ, so the ultimate result is explicitly. finite and real as a function of ε.
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X∞ X 2 A. Regularization of UV divergence ðLÞ 2μqB −iqBnxnynqL △GB ðεÞ¼ e 2 In this section, we show explicitly how the UV diver- 4π ðLÞ n¼0 nx;ny∈Z gence in GB ð0; 0; εÞ is regularized and isolated out −qBjn n Le þn Le j2 qB 2 explicitly. The UV divergence only appears when e 4 x q x y y L jn n Le þn Le j × n 2 x q x y y 2 pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi 3 r ¼ðρ; 0Þ → 0; 2με−2qBðnþ1ÞL 2qBðnþ1ÞL 6 cot 2 coth 2 7 ×4qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi2 þ qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi2 5: 2με−2qBðnþ 1Þ 2qBðnþ 1Þ hence, a small r ¼ ρ is used as UV regulator. In the end, a 2 2 final expression is obtained by taking the limit of ð Þ r ¼ ρ → 0. Starting with an explicit expression of magnetic 33 Green’s function in CM frame (PB ¼ 0), X GðLÞð0; 0;0Þ ðLÞ iqB Next, the UV divergence in B can be isolated − nxnqLnyL GB ð0; 0; εÞ¼ e 2 ðLÞ out by further splitting GB ð0; 0;0Þ into nx;ny∈Z
nXz∈Z −qBjρþn n Le þn Le j2 qB 1 × e 4 x q x y y ðLÞ ðB;LÞ ðB;LÞ 2π L G ð0; 0;0Þ¼G þ G ; ð34Þ 2πnz B UV RC kz¼ L
X∞ L ðqB jρ þ n n Le þ n Le j2Þ n 2 x q x y y × : ðB;LÞ qB 1 k2 G z ρ→0 where is UV divergent and is given by n¼0 ε − μ ðn þ 2Þ − 2μ UV ð Þ 28
qB 1 nXz∈Z X∞ L ðqB jρj2Þ GðB;LÞ ¼ n 2 : ð Þ The UV divergence is associated to the term 2 35 UV 2π L qB 1 kz 2πn − ðn þ Þ − k ¼ z n¼0 μ 2 2μ z L ρ→0 n ∈Z Z 1 Xz X∞ 1 Λ¼1 dk3 1 ∝ r ∝ Λ ¼ ; 2 2 L qB 1 kz k r 2πnz n¼0 ε − ðn þ Þ − r→0 kz¼ μ 2 2μ ðB;LÞ L The GRC is a regulated constant term, and is defined by ð29Þ
n ∈Z X 2 Xz ðLÞ iqBnxnynqL qB 1 G ðB;LÞ − hence B is linearly divergent. G ¼ e 2 RC 2π L The linear divergence can be regularized simply by n ;n ≠0 2πnz x y kz¼ subtraction. Therefore, we first split the finite volume L ∞ qB 2 qB X − 4 jnxnqLexþnyLeyj 2 magnetic Green’s function into a regularized term by e Lnð 2 jnxnqLex þnyLeyj Þ × 2 : subtraction and a term that is UV divergent, qB 1 kz n¼0 − μ ðnþ 2Þ− 2μ ðLÞ ðLÞ ðLÞ ð36Þ GB ð0; 0; εÞ¼△GB ðεÞþGB ð0; 0;0Þ; ð30Þ where ðB;LÞ (1) The regulated constant term GRC can be further simplified by using the identity ðLÞ ðLÞ ðLÞ △GB ðεÞ¼GB ð0; 0; εÞ − GB ð0; 0;0Þ: ð31Þ
X∞ qB 2 ðLÞ Lnð x Þ The subtracted term △GB ðεÞ is free of UV divergence. 2 2 qB 1 kz Using the identity n¼0 − μ ðn þ 2Þ − 2μ 2 2 pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi μ 1 kz 1 kz qB 2 nXz∈Z ¼ − Γ þ U þ ; 1; x ; ð Þ 1 1 2μ 2μEL qB 2 2qB 2 2qB 2 37 2 ¼ pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi cot ; ð32Þ L kz 2 2μE 2 2πnz E − 2μ kz¼ L where Uða; b; zÞ stands for the Kummer function, hence, ðLÞ △GB ðεÞ is thus given explicitly by we find
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