Coulomb singularities in scattering wave functions of spin-orbit-coupled states

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2011-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2643v1

Journal of Mathematical Physics vol. 52, 073515 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3610667

We report on our analysis of the Coulomb singularity problem in the frame of the coupled channel scattering theory including spin-orbit interaction. We assume that the coupling between the partial wave components involves orbital angular momenta such that $\Delta l = 0, \pm 2$. In these conditions, the two radial functions, components of a partial wave associated to two values of the angular momentum $l$, satisfy a system of two second-order ordinary differential equations. We examine the difficulties arising in the analysis of the behavior of the regular solutions near the origin because of this coupling. First, we demonstrate that for a singularity of the first kind in the potential, one of the solutions is not amenable to a power series expansion. The use of the Lippmann-Schwinger equations confirms this fact: a logarithmic divergence arises at the second iteration. To overcome this difficulty, we introduce two auxilliary functions which, together with the two radial functions, satisfy a system of four first-order differential equations. The reduction of the order of the differential system enables us to use a matrix-based approach, which generalizes the standard Frobenius method. We illustrate our analysis with numerical calculations of coupled scattering wave functions in a solid-state system.

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