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Hard-core spherical square-well potential

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For radii 0<a<b, a hard-core spherical square-well potential has V(r)=∞ for r≤a, V(r)=−V0​ for a<r≤b, and V(r)=0 for r>b. Its radial wavefunction vanishes at the hard-core radius and is matched continuously with its radial derivative at r=b.
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Scattering length of a hard-core spherical square-well potential

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Hard-core spherical square-well potential
For outer radius b=2a and zero-energy well wavenumber κ0​=2mV0​​/ℏ, matching the S-wave scattering logarithmic derivative gives
as​=2a−κ0​tan(κ0​a)​.
(1)
It diverges when κ0​a=(n+21​)π, where the well has a zero-energy scattering resonance.

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