# The Goldilocks model of separable, zero-range, few-body interactions in one-dimensional harmonic traps

## TL;DR

The paper introduces the Goldilocks model for few-body interactions in one-dimensional harmonic traps, providing exact solutions and highlighting differences from existing models, aiding in better approximation schemes near the unitary limit.

## Contribution

It presents a new exactly solvable few-body model with intrinsically few-body interactions, bridging features of known models and enhancing understanding of symmetry and integrability.

## Key findings

- Provides exact solutions for three-particle case.
- Highlights distinctions among Goldilocks, Calogero, and contact-interaction models.
- Offers a basis for improved approximation methods near the unitary limit.

## Abstract

This article introduces the "Goldilocks model" for a few repulsively interacting particles trapped in a one-dimensional harmonic well and provides exact solutions for the three-particle case. The Goldilocks model shares features with two other well-known systems, the Calogero model and the contact-interaction model, and coincides with them in limiting cases. However, those models have purely two-body interactions whereas this model has intrinsically few-body interactions. Comparing these three models provides clarifying distinctions among the properties of symmetry, separability and integrability. The model's analytic solutions provide a useful basis to improve approximation schemes, especially near the unitary limit of hard-core contact interactions.