Spherical square-well scattering length

ID: spherical-square-well-scattering-length

For an attractive spherical square well, let . At zero energy, the outer reduced radial wave is proportional to and the regular inner wave to . Matching their logarithmic derivatives gives . Away from a threshold and at sufficiently low energy, the total S-wave scattering scattering cross-section tends to . The length can be negative, zero or divergent.

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