Real stabilization of resonance states employing two parameters: basis set size and coordinate scaling

FEDERICO PONT; PABLO SERRA; OMAR OSENDA

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Año: 2011 vol. 44 p. 135003 - 1350039

0953-4075

The resonance states of one- and two-particle Hamiltonians are studied using variational expansions with real basis-set functions. The resonance energies, Er , and widths, Gamma, arecalculated using the density of states and an L2 golden rule-like formula. We present a recipe to select adequately some solutions of the variational problem. The set of approximate energies obtained shows a very regular behaviour with the basis-set size, N. Indeed, these particular variational eigenvalues show a quite simple scaling behaviour and convergence when N →∞. Following the same prescription to choose particular solutions of the variational problem we obtain a set of approximate widths. Using the scaling function that characterizes the behaviour of the approximate energies as a guide, it is possible to find a very good approximation to the actual value of the resonance width.