Stability of systems of three arbitrary charges: General properties

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1 October 1995

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 52 (4) , 2557-2563
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.52.2557

Abstract

The stability of systems consisting of a negative charge

- q_{1}

and two positive charges

q_{2}

and

q_{3}

is discussed as a function of the values of the charges

q_{i}

and of the constituent masses

m_{i}

. We give general results and list some open questions of interest, which hopefully will stimulate further investigations.

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