Quantum 3-body Coulomb Problem: A Numerical Challenge
Current status of 3-body Coulomb problem (negative hydrogen ion, helium atom, lithium ion etc) will be described. Major emphasis will be given to questions of stability vs Coulomb charge and to analytic structure of the ground state energy.
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PhD and DSc from Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow. APS and IOP fellowships. Research interests: non-perturbative physics (a few-body Coulomb systems with/without magnetic field, in particular), variational methods and Lie-algebraic methods in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.