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TMF, 2023 Volume 215, Number 1, Pages 111–120 (Mi tmf10399)

Quantum Coulomb problem in a Gaussian time-dependent electric field within the path integral formalism

N. Bedidaa, S. Fadhelab, M. Difallaha, M. Meftahb

a Department of Physics and LABTHOP Laboratory, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of El Oued, El Oued, Algeria
b Department of Physics and LRPPS Laboratory, Faculty of Mathematics and Matter Sciences, University of Kasdi Merbah, Ouargla, Algeria

Abstract: We solve the Coulomb problem in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics with a charge depending on a parameter that plays the role of time. The choice of this dependence is needed, for example, after certain spatio–temporal transformations when dealing with the interaction of a “small” system (quantum sub-system) with a “large” system, e.g., a bath. These spatio–temporal transformations, combined with path integral, allow us to find the Feynman propagator of the quantum subsystem. To test our approach, we derive the pure Coulomb Green's function as a limit of our result.

Keywords: path integral, perturbation series, Green's function, modified Coulomb potential.

Received: 01.11.2022
Revised: 28.12.2022

DOI: 10.4213/tmf10399


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2023, 215:1, 551–559

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