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Born amplitude of a declared uniform ball potential with an explicit weak-coupling condition
The declared short-range scattering model with a uniform real ball potential of strength V_0 and radius R in the pair's stationary beam reading: the explicit Born amplitude as a function of the momentum transfer, its forward value, and an explicit Hilbert-Schmidt condition on V_0, R and m that makes the controlled Born error estimate of the pair applicable. Conditional on the declared model and cited mathematics; no measured cross section and no claim that the Born reading applies outside the stated explicit condition.
Example
Setup. Adopt the declared short-range scattering model The declared short-range scattering model: state space, potential classes, assigned energy observables, asymptotic vocabulary and units with mass , spin zero, action constant and the uniform ball potential read in joules and metres; adopt the stationary beam model at wave number and direction , and let , , and the Born amplitude be as in The controlled Born reading: operator-norm condition, uniform amplitude error and coupling scaling. Write for the scattering angle, , and for the wave-vector transfer and for its magnitude.
Verification
Given: the declared model data, the Born theorem of the pair, and the polar-coordinates formula for Lebesgue measure.
By the Born theorem, with constant on ; in polar coordinates the ball integral is for , and equals at by continuity.
The kernel on has squared Hilbert-Schmidt norm ; for each the inner integral over is at most the integral over the ball of radius around , which is . Hence .
Therefore for , with the forward value ; the amplitude has the dimension of length, since is in and the bracket in .
Consequently, if , then and the controlled Born estimate of the theorem applies; since is increasing on and , the uniform error bound is at most in metres; this is an explicit condition on the declared strength, radius, mass and action constant, verified here without any numerical value of the constants.
Under the same condition the beam model reads , and the theorem controls the difference from through the bound of 2.2; the pair asserts the display as the Born forward reading, read in , and no measured value.
Remarks
- Scope. The Born amplitude is a conditional model quantity; the explicit condition of 2.2 is sufficient for the controlled error bound of the pair and is not claimed to be necessary.
- No weak-potential language. The pair avoids "for a weak potential"; the condition is the operator-norm condition , verified here through the displayed Hilbert-Schmidt bound.
Depends on
The declared short-range scattering model: state space, potential classes, assigned energy observables, asymptotic vocabulary and units
The controlled Born reading: operator-norm condition, uniform amplitude error and coupling scaling
The model's stationary scattering wave, its outgoing amplitude and the differential and total cross-section readings
The declared stationary elastic beam model: incident plane wave, scattered wave, current readings and differential and total cross sections
Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework
State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems
Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes
Autonomous dynamics postulate P4: self-adjoint generators and unitary evolution
Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework
Polar coordinates decompose Lebesgue measure into r^{n-1} dr d sigma
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
The Axiom of Choice
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- R. Fitzpatrick, Quantum Mechanics (University of Texas at Austin, author-hosted course text), Section 15.4 printed pages 213-215: the Born approximation and the condition for its validity
- J. Binney and D. Skinner, The Physics of Quantum Mechanics, Section 12.3, printed pages 267-270 (PDF pages 275-278)