N-boson energies at finite volume and three-boson interactions

Abstract

We calculate the volume dependence of the ground-state energy of n identical bosons with short-range repulsive (or weakly attractive) interactions in a periodic spatial volume of side L, up to and including terms of order L(-6). With this result, Lattice-QCD calculations of the ground-state energies of three or more pions will allow for a systematic extraction of the three-pion interaction at this order in the volume expansion.

Department

Physics

Publication Date

10-29-2007

Journal Title

Physical Review D

Publisher

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.074507

Document Type

Article

Rights

© 2007 The American Physical Society

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