Abstract
We calculate resonances in the three-body system with attractive Coulomb potential by solving homogeneous Faddeev-Merkuriev integral equations for complex energies. The equations are solved using the Coulomb-Sturmian separable expansion method. This approach allows us to study the exact behavior of the three-body Coulomb systems near the threshold. A negatively charged positronium ion is used as a test case. In addition to locating all previously known S-wave resonances of the positronium ion, we also find a large number of new resonant states that accumulate just slightly above the two-body thresholds. The pattern of accumulation of resonant states above the two-body thresholds suggests that probably they are infinite in number. We conjecture that this may be a general property of the three-body system with an attractive Coulomb potential.
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