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Preferred shapes and modes of internal motion in a four-boson system

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A four-body quantum-mechanical system is studied and through suitable manipulations of its wave functions, dominant shapes and modes of internal motion are ascribed to a number of its low-lying 0+ states.

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Research supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-8712229 and Grant No. PHY-8945627

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Li, P.J., Bao, C.G. & Lim, T.K. Preferred shapes and modes of internal motion in a four-boson system. Few-Body Systems 9, 11–23 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01077670

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