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    QUANTUM MECHANICAL LOW ENERGY SCATTERING IN TERMS

    OF DIFFUSION PROCESSES

    S. Albeverio Ph. Blanchard


    Mathematisches Institut Theoretische Physik
    Ruhr Universitat Universitat Bielefeld
    0-4630 Bochum 0-4800 Bielefeld
    FR Germany FR Germany

    F. Gesztesy * •** L. Streit


    Zentrum fUr Institut fUr
    interdisziplinare Forschung Theoretische Physik
    Universitat Bielefeld Universitat Bielefeld
    0-4800 Bielefeld 0-4800 Bielefeld
    FR Germany

    Abstract:
    We give expressions for the scattering lengths as expec-
    tations with respect to the stochastic process associated
    with the quantum mechanical Hamiltonian and the corresponding
    diffusion Dirichlet operator. We also briefly discuss the
    asymptotics of the drift in relation to the scattering length.

    * Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow


    ** On leave of absence from Institut fUr Theoretische Physik,
    Universitat Graz. Austria
    208

    1. Introduction

    In recent years ideas and methods of the theory of stochastic processes


    have been used quite extensively in the study of quantum mechanics and,
    on the other hand, the theory of stochastic processes has received a
    lot of stimulating impulses from quantum theory, see e.g. [13] - [17],
    [19]-[22], [25]-[43] (and references therein). The origin of this interac-
    tion can be found in the relation between elliptic operators, potential
    theory and diffusion processes (with Feynman-Kac and/or Girsanov formu-
    -lae, on the one hand, and the theory of Dirichlet forms [25] on the
    other hand, as basic technical tools) as well as in Nelson's formula-
    tion of quantum theory as stochastic mechanics, see e.g. [31], [33]-
    [36], [39] - [41].

    Through the interpretation of quantum mechanics as stochastic mechanics


    one is naturally led to ask in particular for the relation between quan-
    tum mechanical scattering quantities and probabilistic (or potential
    theoretic) quantities associated with the underlying stochastic pro-
    cess. By means of transformation theory (Feynman-Kac, Girsanov formulae
    in particular) it is possible to translate this question into one con-
    cerning certain functionals of Brownian motion, uncluding the interac-
    tion potential. In this generality the problems have been discussed par-
    tially in work by Biler [31] and Carlen [39], of which we heard in the
    final stage of our work.

    There is a case, however, in which a direct relation between scattering


    quantities and probabilistic quantities comes out quite naturally, namely
    the limit of low energies, in which the quantum mechanical cross section
    is given by a geometric quantity, the scattering length. A relation be-
    tween this quantity and the Newtonian capacity of the support of the
    potential in Schrodinger's equation was already discussed in work by
    Kac [20], Luttinger [21] and Taylor [22].

    In this paper we take up the study of the relations between quantum


    mechanical and probabilistic quantities, for a general class of poten-
    tials, in the low energy limit. In particular we give expressions of
    the scattering length in terms of expectations, involving the potential
    V, with respect to Wiener measure, from which we then recover as a
    special case formulae originally pointed out by Kac. We also give two
    new expressions of the scattering length, one in terms of the V-expo·-
    rentially killed Wiener process, i. e. the process associated with the
    "dO
    S c h ro 0 P t = e -t(-ll.+V) and one0
    terms 0 f t h e process

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