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A Neutral Atom and a Charged Wire: From Elastic scattering to Absorption

M. Bawin, S. A. Coon

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0012039

Abstract

We solve the problem of a neutral atom interacting with a charged wire, giving rise to an attractive 1/r2 potential in two dimensions. We show how a suitable average over all possible self-adjoint extensions of the radial Schroedinger Hamiltonian eventually leads to the classical formula for absorption of the atom, a formula shown to be in agreement with a recent experiment.

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