Rokash Alexander, Epelbaum Evgeny, Krebs Hermann, Lee Dean
Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44870 Bochum, Germany.
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Jun 9;118(23):232502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.232502.
Recent ab initio lattice studies have found that the interactions between alpha particles (^{4}He nuclei) are sensitive to seemingly minor details of the nucleon-nucleon force, such as interaction locality. In order to uncover the essential physics of this puzzling phenomenon without unnecessary complications, we study a simple model involving two-component fermions in one spatial dimension. We probe the interaction between two bound dimers for several different particle-particle interactions and measure an effective potential between the dimers using external point potentials which act as numerical tweezers. We find that the strength and range of the local part of the particle-particle interactions play a dominant role in shaping the interactions between the dimers and can even determine the overall sign of the effective potential.
