Two trapped particles interacting by a finite-ranged two-body potential   in two spatial dimensions
  We examine the problem of two particles confined in an isotropic harmonic trap, which interact via a finite-ranged Gaussian-shaped potential in two spatial dimensions. We derive an approximative transcendental equation for the energy and study the resulting spectrum as a function of the interparticle interaction strength. Both the attractive and repulsive systems are analyzed. We study the impact of the potential's range on the ground-state energy. Complementary, we also explicitly verify by a variational treatment that in the zero-range limit the positive delta potential in two dimensions only reproduces the non-interacting results, if the Hilbert space in not truncated. Finally, we establish and discuss the connection between our finite-range treatment and regularized zero-range results from the literature. 
Rostislav A. Doganov, Shachar Klaiman, Ofir E. Alon, Alexej I.   Streltsov, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum
cond-mat.quant-gas quant-ph