The self-energy of Friedrichs-Lee models and its application to bound states and resonances

Abstract

A system composed of two-level systems interacting with a single excitation of a one-dimensional boson field with continuous spectrum, described by a Friedrichs (or Friedrichs-Lee) model, can exhibit bound states and resonances; the latter can be characterized by computing the so-called self-energy of the model. We evaluate an analytic expression, valid for a large class of dispersion relations and coupling functions, for the self-energy of such models. Afterwards, we focus on the case of identical two-level systems, and we refine our analysis by distinguishing between dominant and suppressed contributions to the associated self-energy; we finally examine the phenomenology of bound states in the presence of a single dominant contribution.

22+9 pages, 5 figures; to appear in Eur. Phys. J. Plus

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