Kohn variational method formation

Among the most detailed and accurate investigations of positronium formation in the Ore gap are those of Humberston (1982, 1984) and Brown and Humberston (1984, 1985), who used an extension of the Kohn variational method described previously, see section 3.2, to two open channels. The single-channel Kohn functional, equation (3.37), is now replaced by the following stationary functional for the K-matrix ... 

Probably the most accurate positron-hydrogen s-wave phase shifts are those obtained by Bhatia et al. (4974), who avoided the possibility of Schwartz singularities by using a bounded variational method based on the optical potential formalism described previously. These authors chose their basis functions spanning the closed-channel Q-space, see equation (3.44), to be of essentially the same Hylleraas form as those used in the Kohn trial function, equation (3.42), and their most accurate results were obtained with 84 such terms. By extrapolating to infinite u in a somewhat similar way to that described in equation (3.54), they obtained phase shifts which are believed to be accurate to within 0.0002 rad. They also established that there are no Feshbach resonances below the positronium formation threshold. 

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