Discrete Scale Invariance and $U(2)$ Family of Two-Body Contact Interactions in One Dimension

Abstract

Because of the absence of indistinguishability constraint, interparticle interactions between nonidentical particles have in general much more variety than those between identical particles. In particular, it is known that there exists a $U(2)$ family of two-body contact interactions between nonidentical particles in one spatial dimension. This paper studies breakdown of continuous scale invariance to discrete scale invariance under this $U(2)$ family of two-body contact interactions in two-body problems of nonidentical particles on the half line. We show that, in contrast to the corresponding identical-particle problem, there exist two distinct channels that admit geometric sequences of two-body bound states.