100 years of the Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk journal. Methodological notes
Harmony in many-particle quantum problem
K.V. Chukbara,b aNational Research Centre ‘Kurchatov Institute’, pl. akad. Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russian Federation bMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, 141701, Russian Federation
The model quantum problem of a harmonically trapped cloud of identical nonrelativistic particles interacting via harmonic oscillator potential has an exact solution which can be used to assess the efficiency of approximate methods standardly used in more realistic many-particle calculations.