Three- and four-nucleon ground-state wave functions are displayed graphically in coordinate space as well as the Faddeev amplitudes from which they are constructed. In the four-body case only two-particle correlations are taken into account in the integro-differential equation approach, which consequently allows us to make a direct comparison between the Faddeev amplitudes for three and four nucleons and to demonstrate their high degree of similarity in shape. We also investigate the effect of the inclusion of the hypercentral potential in the definition of the (modified) Faddeev amplitudes. It is shown that the Faddeev-type components calculated in the adiabatic approximation are rather similar in shape to those calculated by means of the exact solution of the system of coupled integro-differential equations in two variables. The mixed symmetry component of the Faddeev-type amplitudes show the greatest sensitivity to the number of nucleons, the inclusion of the hypercentral potential, and to the adiabatic approximation.

• Received 7 May 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.43.25