Approximate relativistic bound states of a particle in Yukawa field with Coulomb tensor interaction Sameer M. Ikhdair1 Physics Department, Near East University, 922022 Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, Turkey. and Physics Department, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. 3 1 0 Babatunde J. Falaye2 2 l u Theoretical Physics Section, Department of Physics J University of Ilorin, P. M. B. 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria. 1 3 ] h t - l Abstract c u We obtain the approximate relativistic bound state of a spin-1/2 particle in the field of the n Yukawa potential and a Coulomb-like tensor interaction with arbitrary spin-orbit coupling [ number κ under the spin and pseudospin (p-spin) symmetries. The asymptotic iteration 1 method isusedto obtainenergyeigenvaluesandcorrespondingwavefunctions intheirclosed v forms. Our numerical results show that the tensor interaction removes degeneracies between 6 the spin and p-spin doublets and creates new degenerate doublets for various strengths of 2 tensor coupling. 3 8 . 7 Keywords: Dirac equation; Yukawa potential; Coulomb-like tensor interaction; spin and 0 3 p-spin symmetries, asymptotic iteration method 1 : v PACS: 03.65.Ge, 03.65.Fd, 03.65.Pm, 02.30.Gp i X r 1 Introduction a Within theframework of Dirac equation, thep-spin symmetry is used to feature deformed nuclei, superdeformationandtoestablishaneffectiveshell-model[1,2,3,4]. However,thespinsymmetry is relevant for mesons [5]. The spin symmetry occurs when ∆(r)= V(r)−S(r)=constant or the scalar potential S(r) is nearly equal to the vector potential V(r), i.e., S(r) ≈ V(r). The p-spin symmetry occurs when Σ(r) = V(r)+S(r) =constant or S(r) ≈ −V(r) [6, 7, 8, 9]. 1 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]. 2 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Furthermore, the p-spin symmetry refers to a quasi-degeneracy of single nucleon doublets with non-relativistic quantum number (n, ℓ, j = ℓ+1/2) and (n−1, ℓ+2, j = ℓ+3/2), where n, ℓ and j are single nucleon radial, orbital and total angular quantum numbers, respectively [10, 11]. The total angular momentum is j = ℓ˜+s˜, whereℓ˜= ℓ+1 is pseudo-angular momentum and s˜ is p-spin angular momentum [1]. Recently, the tensor potential was introduced into the Dirac equation with the substitution: P~ → P~ −imωβ.rˆU(r) and a spin-orbit coupling is added to the Dirac Hamiltonian [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. The Yukawa potential or static screened Coulomb potential (SSCP) [18, 19, 20] can be de- fined as e−ar V(r)= −V , (1) 0 r where V = αZ, α = (137.037)−1 is the fine-structure constant, Z is the atomic number and a is 0 thescreeningparameter. Thispotential is often usedto computebound-statenormalizations and energy levels of neutral atoms [21, 22, 23]. Over the past years, several methods have been used in solving relativistic and nonrelativistic equations with the Yukawa potential such as the shifted large-method [24], perturbativesolution of theRiccati equation [25, 26], alternative perturbative scheme [27, 28], the quasi-linearization method (QLM) [29] and Nikiforov-Uvarov method [30]. Thetensor coupling, ahigher ordertermin arelativistic expansion, increases significantly the spin-orbit coupling. This suggests that the tensor coupling could have a significant contribution to p-spin splittings in nuclei as well. This contribution is expected to be particularly relevant for the levels near the Fermi surface, because the tensor coupling depends on the derivative of a vector potential, which has a peak near the Fermi surface for typical nuclear mean-field vector potentials. It has also been used as a natural way to introduce the harmonic oscillator in a relativistic (Dirac) formalism. In a recent article, it was shown that the harmonic oscillator with scalar and vector potentials can exhibit an exact p-spin symmetry [14, 31]. When this symmetry is broken ( 6= 0), the breaking term is quite large, manifesting its nonperturbative behavior. However, ifPa tensor coupling is introduced, the form of harmonic-oscillator potential can still be maintained with ( =0), but the p-spin symmetry is broken perturbatively [32]. P Thetensorinteractionhasalsobeenconsideredtoexplainhowthespin-orbittermcanbesmall for Λ−nucleus and large in the nucleon-nucleus case [33]. It is assumed that in the strange sector (case of Λ ) the tensor coupling is large and the spin-orbit term obtained from this interaction 2 can cancel in part the contribution coming from the scalar and vector interactions. This result shows that the tensor interaction can change strongly the spin-orbit term. It is therefore the aim of the present work is to apply the asymptotic iteration method [34, 35, 36, 37] in solving the Dirac equation with the Yukawa potential including a Coulomb-like tensor interaction to obtain the energy eigenvalues and corresponding wave functions in view of spin and p-spin symmetry. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the AIM is briefly introduced. In Section 3, we present the Dirac equation with scalar and vector potentials for arbitrary spin-orbit coupling numberincludingtensor interaction in view of spinandp-spinsymmetry. InSection 4, weobtain the energy eigenvalue equations and corresponding wave functions. We discuss our numerical results in Section 5. Our conclusion is given in Section 6. 2 Method of Analysis One of the calculational tools utilized in solving the Schro¨dinger dinger-like equation including the centrifugal barrier and/or the spin-orbit coupling term is called as the asymptotic iteration method (AIM). For a given potential the idea is to convert the Schro¨dinger-like equation to the homogenous linear second-order differential equation of the form: y′′(x)= λ (x)y′(x)+s (x)y(x), (2) o o where λ (x) and s (x) have sufficiently many continous derivatives and defined in some interval o o which are not necessarily bounded. The differential Eq. (2) has a general solution [34, 10] x x x′ y(x)= exp − α(x′)dx′ C +C exp λ (x′′)+2α(x′′) dx′′ dx′ . (3) 2 1 o (cid:18) Z (cid:19)" Z Z ! # (cid:2) (cid:3) If k > 0, for sufficiently large k, we obtain the α(x) s (x) s (x) k k−1 = = α(x) , k = 1,2,3..... (4) λ (x) λ (x) k k−1 where λ (x) = λ′ (x)+s (x)+λ (x)λ (x), k k−1 k−1 o k−1 s (x) = s′ (x)+s (x)λ (x) , k = 1,2,3..... (5) k k−1 o k−1 with quantization condition λ (x) s (x) δ (x) = k k = 0 , k = 1,2,3.... (6) k λ (x) s (x) (cid:12) k−1 k−1 (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) 3 (cid:12) The energy eigenvalues are then obtained from (6), if the problem is exactly solvable. 3 Dirac Equation with a Tensor Interaction In spherical coordinates, the Dirac equation for fermonic massive spin−1/2 particles interacting with arbitrary scalar potential S(r), the time-component V(r) of a four-vector potential and the tensor potential U(r) can be expressed as [1, 7] [α~.p~+β(M +S(r))−iβα~.rˆU(r)]ψ(~r)= [E −V(r)]ψ(~r), (7) where E, ~p and M denote the relativistic energy of the system, the momentum operator and mass of the particle respectively. α and β are 4×4 Dirac matrices given by 0 ~σ I 0 0 1 0 −1 1 0 α¯ = , β = , σ = , σ = , σ = , ~σ 0 0 −I 1 1 0 2 i 0 3 0 −1 ! ! ! ! ! (8) whereI isthe2×2unitarymatrixand~σ arethethree-vector paulispinmatrices. Theeigenvalues of the spin-orbit coupling operator are κ = j+ 1 > 0 and κ = − j + 1 < 0 for unaligned 2 2 (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) spin j = ℓ− 1 and the aligned spin j = ℓ+ 1 respectively. The set (H2,K,J2,J ) can be taken 2 2 Z as the complete setof conservative quantities with J~beingthetotal angular momentum operator and K = (~σ.L~ +1) is the spin-orbit where L~ is the orbital angular momentum of the spherical nucleons that commutes with the Dirac Hamiltonian. Thus, the spinor wave functions can be classified according to their angular momentum j, the spin-orbit quantum number κ and the radial quantum number n. Hence, they can be written as follows: ψ (~r) = fnκ(~r) = 1 Fnκ(r)Yjℓm(θ,φ) , (9) nκ gnκ(~r) ! r iGnκ(r)Yjℓ˜m(θ,φ), ! whereF (r)andG (r)aretheradialwavefunctionsoftheupper-andlower-spinorcomponents nκ nκ respectively and Yℓ (θ,φ) and Yℓ˜ (θ,φ) are the spherical harmonic functions coupled to the jm jm total angular momentum j and it’s projection m on the z axis. Substitution of equation (7) into equation (2) yields the following coupled differential equations: d κ + −U(r) F (r) = (M −E −∆(r))G (r) nκ nκ nκ dr r (cid:18) (cid:19) d κ − +U(r) G (r) = (M −E −Σ(r))F (r) (10) nκ nκ nκ dr r (cid:18) (cid:19) where ∆(r) = V(r)− S(r) and Σ(r) = V(r) +S(r) are the difference and sum potentials re- spectively. After eliminating F (r) and G (r) in equations (10), we obtain the following two nκ nκ 4 Schro¨diger-like differential equations for the upper and lower spinor components: d2 κ(κ+1) 2κ dU(r) d∆(r) d κ − + U(r)−U2(r)− + dr + −U(r) F (r) "dr2 r2 r dr M +Enκ−∆(r)(cid:18)dr r (cid:19)# nκ = [(M +E −∆(r))(M −E +Σ(r))]F (r), (11) nκ nκ nκ d2 κ(κ−1) 2κ dU(r) dΣ(r) d κ − + U(r)−U2(r)+ + dr − +U(r) G (r) "dr2 r2 r dr M −Enκ+Σ(r)(cid:18)dr r (cid:19)# nκ = [(M +E −∆(r))(M −E +Σ(r))]G (r), (12) nκ nκ nκ where κ(κ−1) = ℓ¯(ℓ¯+1) and κ(κ+1) =ℓ(ℓ+1) 3.1 P-spin Symmetry Limit d[V(r)+S(r)] dΣ(r) The pseudospin symmetry occurs when = = 0 or Σ(r) = C =constant. Here dr dr ps we are taking ∆(r) as the Yukawa potential and the tensor as the Coulomb-like potential, i.e. e−ar A ∆(r)= −V and U(r) = − , r ≥ R , (13) o c r r with Z Z e2 a b A = , (14) 4πǫ o where R is the Coulomb radius, Z and Z respectively, denote the charges of the projectile a c a b and the target nuclei b [1, 7]. Under this symmetry, equation (12) can easily be transformed to d2 δ˜ γ˜e−ar − + −β˜2 G (r)= 0, (15) "dr2 r2 r # nκ where κ =−ℓ˜and κ = ℓ˜+1 for κ< 0 and κ> 0 respectively and γ˜ = (E −M −C )V , nκ ps 0 β˜ = (M +E )(M −E +C ), (16) nκ nκ ps q δ˜ = (κ+A)(κ+A−1), have been introduced for simplicity. 3.2 Spin Symmetry Limit d∆(r) In the spin symmetry limit, = 0 or ∆(r) = C = constant [1, 7]. Similarly to section 3.1, dr s we consider e−ar A Σ(r)= −V and U(r)= − , r ≥ R . (17) o c r r 5 With equations (17), equation (11) can be transformed to d2 δ γe−ar − + −β2 F (r) = 0, (18) "dr2 r2 r # nκ where κ = ℓ and κ = −ℓ−1 for κ < 0 and κ > 0, respectively. We have also introduced the following parameters γ = (M +E −C )V , nκ s 0 β = (M −E )(M +E −C ), (19) nκ nκ s q δ = (κ+A)(κ+A+1), for simplicity. 4 Approximate Relativistic Bound States In this section, within the framework of the AIM, we shall solve the Dirac equation with the Yukawa potential in the presence of the tensor potential. 4.1 P-Spin Symmetric Solution To obtain analytical approximate solution for the Yukawa potential, an approximation has to be made for the centrifugal term 1/r2, which is similar to the one taken by other authors [37−43] 1 4a2e−2ar ≈ , (20) r2 (1−e−2ar)2 which is valid for ar << 1. With this approximation, equation (15) can be written as d2G (r) 2aγ˜e−2ar 4a2δ˜e−2ar nκ + − −β˜2 G (r)= 0. (21) dr2 "(1−e−2ar) (1−e−2ar)2 # nκ In order to obtain the solution of equation (21), we introduce a transformation of the form z = e−2ar −1 −1, as a result, equation (21) can be rewritten as (cid:0) d(cid:1)2Gnκ(z) dGnκ(z) δ˜z2+ δ˜+ 2γ˜a z+ 2γ˜a + 4β˜a22 z(z+1) +(1+2z) − G (r). (22) dz2 dz (cid:16) (cid:16) z(1(cid:17)+z)(cid:16) (cid:17)(cid:17) nκ According to theFrebenius theorem, the singularity points of theabove differential equation play an essential role in the form of the wave functions. The singular points of the above equation (22) are at z = 0 and z = −1. As a result, we take the wave functions of the form Gnκ(z) = zρ˜(1+z)−2β˜agnκ(z), (23) 6 where β˜2 γ˜ ρ˜= + . (24) s4a2 2a Substituting equations (23) and (24) into equation (22) allows us to find the following second- order equation d2gnκ(z) 2z 2β˜a −ρ˜−1 −(2ρ˜+1) dgnκ 2β˜a −ρ˜ − 2β˜a −ρ˜ 2+δ˜ − − g (z), (25) dz2 (cid:16) z(1+(cid:17)z) dz (cid:16) (cid:17)z(z(cid:16)+1) (cid:17) nκ which is suitable to an AIM solutions. In order to use the AIM procedure, we compare equation (25) with equation (2) and obtain λ (z) and s (z) equations as 0 0 2z β˜ −ρ˜−1 −(2ρ˜+1) 2a λ (z) = , 0 (cid:16) z(1+(cid:17)z) β˜ −ρ˜ − β˜ −ρ˜ 2+δ˜ 2a 2a s (z) = . (26) 0 (cid:16) (cid:17)z(z(cid:16)+1) (cid:17) By using the termination condition of the AIM given in equation (6), we obtain λ (z) s (z) β˜ 1 1 δ (z) = 1 1 = 0 ⇒ ρ˜ − 0 = − − 1+4δ˜ 0 (cid:12)(cid:12) λ0(z) so(z) (cid:12)(cid:12) 0 2a 2 2q δ (z) = (cid:12)(cid:12)(cid:12) λ2(z) s2(z) (cid:12)(cid:12)(cid:12) = 0 ⇒ ρ˜ − β˜1 = −3 − 1 1+4δ˜ (27) 1 (cid:12)(cid:12) λ1(z) s1(z) (cid:12)(cid:12) 1 2a 2 2q δ (z) = (cid:12)(cid:12)(cid:12) λ3(z) s3(z) (cid:12)(cid:12)(cid:12) = 0 ⇒ ρ˜ − β˜2 = −5 − 1 1+4δ˜ 2 (cid:12)(cid:12) λ2(z) s2(z) (cid:12)(cid:12) 2 2a 2 2q .(cid:12)..etc. (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) The above expressions can be generalized as β˜ 2n+1 1 ρ˜ − n = − − 1+4δ˜. (28) n 2a 2 2 q If one insert the values of ρ˜, β˜ and δ˜ into equation (28), the energy spectrum equation can be obtained as (M +E )(M −E +C )−2a(κ+A+n) = (M −E +C )(M +E −2aV ). (29) nκ nκ ps nκ ps nκ o q q On squaring both sides of equation (29), we obtain a more explicit expression for the energy spectrum as 2a(n+κ+A)2+V (M −E +C ) 2 o nκ ps = (n+κ+A)2. (30) 4(M +E )(M −E +C ) (cid:2) nκ nκ ps (cid:3) 7 For special case when A= 0, our result is exacly identical with the one obtained by Ikhdair [41] and by Aydogˇduand Sever [42]. Now we shall obtain theeigenfunction usingthe AIM. Generally speaking, the differential equation we wish to solve should be transformed to the form [35]: ΛxN+1 m+1 WxN y′′(x) = 2 − y′(x)− , (31) 1−bxN+2 x ! 1−bxN+2 where a, b and m are constants. The general solution of equation (31) is found as [2] y (x) = (−1)nC (N +2)n(σ) F (−n,t+n;σ;bxN+2), (32) n 2 n2 1 where the following notations have been used Γ(σ+n) 2m+N +3 (2m+1)b+2Λ (σ) = , σ = and t = . (33) n Γ(σ) N +2 (N +2)b Now, comparing equations (32) and (22), we have Λ = β˜ − 1, b = −1, N = −1, m = ρ˜− 1, 2a 2 2 σ = 2ρ˜+1, t = 2 ρ˜− β˜ and then the solution of equation (25) can easily found as 2a (cid:16) (cid:17) Γ(2ρ˜+1) β˜ g (z) = (−1)n F −n,2 ρ˜− +n+1;2ρ˜+1;−z , (34) nκ 2 1 Γ(2ρ˜) 2a! ! where Γ and F are the Gamma function and hypergeometric function, respectively. By using 2 1 equations (23) and (34) we can write the corresponding lower spinor component G (z) as nκ Gnκ(z) = Nnκzq4β˜a22+2γ˜a(1+z)−2β˜a 2F1−n,2s4β˜a22 + 2γ˜a − 2β˜a+n+1;2s4β˜a22 + 2γ˜a +1;−z, (35) where N is the normalization constant. nκ 4.2 Spin Symmetric Solution Following the previous section 4.1, approximation (20) is used instead of the centrifugal term 1/r2 and we rewrite equation (18) as d2F (r) 2aγe−2ar 4a2δe−2ar nκ + − −β2 F (r)= 0. (36) dr2 "(1−e−2ar) (1−e−2ar)2 # nκ We have decided to use the same variable so as to avoid repetition of algebra. It is clear that equation (36) is similar to equation (21); therefore substituting for γ, δ and β in equation (28), the relativistic energy spectrum turns out as 2a(n+κ+A+1)2 −V (M +E −C ) 2 0 nκ s = (n+κ+A+1)2, (37) 4(M −E )(M +E −C ) (cid:2) nκ nκ s (cid:3) 8 and the associated upper spinor component F (z) as nκ Fn,κ(z) = Cn,κzq4βa22+2γa(1+z)−2βa 2F1−n,2s4βa22 + 2γa − 2βa+n+1;2s4βa22 + 2γa +1;−z, (38) where C is the normalization constant. n,κ Unlike the non relativistic case, the normalization condition for the Dirac spinor combines the two individual normalization constants N and C in one single integral. The radial wave n,κ n,κ functions are normalized according to the formula ∞ψ†ψr2dr = 1 which explicitly implies for 0 f (r) and g (r) in equation (9) that [44] R n,κ n,κ ∞ ∞ f2 (r)+g2 (r) r2dr = F2 (r)+G2 (r) dr = 1. (39) n,κ n,κ n,κ n,κ Z0 (cid:16) (cid:17) Z0 (cid:16) (cid:17) wherethe upperand lower spinor components of the total radial wave functions can beexpressed in terms of the confluent hypergeometric functions as [41] Γ(n+2β +1) F (s)= N sβ(1−s)κ+A+1 F (−n,2(β +κ+A+1)+n;2β+1;s), (40) nκ 2 1 Γ(2β +1)n! and Γ(n+2γ +1) G (s)= N sγ(1−s)κ+A F (−n,2(γ +κ+A+1)+n;2γ+1;s), (41) nκ 2 1 Γ(2γ +1)n! with β = (M −E )(M +E −C ), γ = (M +E )(M −E +C ), s= e−2ar. (42) nκ nκ s nκ nκ ps q q Hence, equation (39) can be re-written in terms of variable s as 1 ds F2 (s)+G2 (s) = 2a, (43) s n,κ nκ Z0 h i where s → 1 when r → 0 and s → 0 when r → ∞. The method to compute N is given in Ref. [45]. Thus we have Γ(n+2β +1) 2 1 N2 s2β−1(1−s)2(κ+A+1)[ F (−n,2(β +κ+A+1)+n;2β +1;s)]2ds 2 1 "(cid:18) Γ(2β +1)n! (cid:19) Z0 # Γ(n+2γ+1) 2 1 +N2 s2γ−1(1−s)2(κ+A)[ F (−n,2(γ +κ+A)+n;2γ+1;s)]2ds =2a,(44) 2 1 "(cid:18) Γ(2γ +1)n! (cid:19) Z0 # with the confluent hypergeometric function which is defined by ∞ (a ) ...(a ) si 1 i p i F (a ,......a ;b ,.....b ;s) = , (45) p q 1 p 1 q (b ) ...(b ) i! i=0 1 i q i X 9 where (a ) and (b ) are Pochhammer symbols. We can obtain the normalization constant as 1 i 1 i [46]: Γ(n+2β +1) 2 ∞ (−n) (2β +2κ+2A+2+n) (2β) N2 i i iB(2β,2κ+2A+3) ((cid:18) Γ(2β +1)n! (cid:19) i=0 (2β +1)i(2β +2κ+2A+3)ii! X × F (−n,2(β +κ+A+1)+n,2β+i;2β +1,2(β +κ+A+1)+1+i;1) (46) 3 2 Γ(n+2γ +1) 2 ∞ (−n) (2γ +2κ+2A+n) (2γ) i i i + B(2γ,2κ+2A+1) Γ(2γ +1)n! (2γ +1) (2γ +2κ+2A) i! (cid:18) (cid:19) i=0 i i X × F (−n,2(γ +κ+A)+n,2γ +i;2γ +1,2(γ +κ+A)+1+i;1)} = 2a, 3 2 where 1 Γ(x)Γ(y) B(x,y)= tx−1(1−t)y−1dt = , Re(x),Re(y)> 0, Γ(x+y) Z0 1 1 B , = π,B(x,y) = B(y,x). (47) 2 2 (cid:18) (cid:19) Incomplete beta function is given as x B(x;a,b) = ta−1(1−t)b−1dt, (48) Z0 and the regularized beta function as B(x;a,b) I (a,b) = (49) x B(a,b) In the special case when A = 0, our result is identical to the one obtained by Ikhdair [41] and also by Setare and Haidari [43] by means of the Nikiforov-Uvarov method. 5 Numerical Results By taking V = 1 and C = −5.0fm−1, we found that the particle is strongly attracted to the 0 ps nucleus. In the absence of tensor interaction, i.e., A = 0, we noticed that the set of p-spin sym- metrydoublets: 1s ,2p , 1p ,2s ,2d , 1d ,2f , 0d ,1f , 0f ,1d , 1/2 3/2 3/2 1/2 5/2 5/2 7/2 3/2 7/2 5/2 3/2 (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) 0g ,1f and 0h ,1g havesameenergiesas−4.500000000, −4.497559159, −4.490219111, 7/2 5/2 9/2 7/2 (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) −4.477926642, −4.460590892, −4.438679893 and −4.410215299fm−1, respectively. It is also noticed that the presence of tensor interaction, say A = 0.5, removes the degeneracy between the states in the above doublets and creates a new set of p-spin symmetric doublets 1s ,1p ,2p ,2d , 1d ,2f ,2s , 1f , 0d , 0f ,1d , 0g ,1f 1/2 3/2 3/2 5/2 5/2 7/2 1/2 7/2 3/2 5/2 3/2 7/2 5/2 (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) (cid:16) (cid:17) and 0h ,1g having identical energies as −4.499390062, −4.494504009, −4.484696693, 9/2 7/2 (cid:16) (cid:17) −4.469896410, −4.449992282, −4.424829942 and −4.394205177fm−1, respectively. 10
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