Past exam of the theoretical physics II course of the University of Cambridge / 2017 / 3 / c

Choose the even-channel scattering phase shift convention ${\phi }_{k,e}(x)={\pi }^{-1/2}\cos (k|x|+{\delta }_e)$ for $k>0$. The delta potential derivative jump givesso, choosing the branch that tends to zero as $k\to \infty$,An odd scattering eigenfunction is ${\phi }_{k,o}(x)={\pi }^{-1/2}\sin kx$: it vanishes at the interaction and its derivative is continuous, so it acquires no scattering phase shift. These parity channels, with the bound state, give the continuum part of the spectral resolution of a quantum propagator.