Correlation in an exactly solvable two-particle quantum system

Abstract

We have obtained an exact analytical solution for a system of two particles moving under the action of a central harmonic-oscillator potential and the mutual Coulomb interaction augmented by a potential linear in the interparticle coordinate. The expressions for the single-particle density, the exchange-correlation energy quantities, and the correlation functions are thereby derived. Numerical results on the exchange-correlation contributions are presented using plots of various local energy densities as well as the corresponding global energy quantities for varying strengths of the oscillator potential.