A presentation and a generalization are given of the phenomenon of level rearrangement. This occurs when an attractive long-range potential is perturbed by a short-range attractive potential as its strength is increased. This phenomenon was first discovered in condensed matter physics and has also been studied in the physics of exotic atoms. A similar phenomenon occurs in a model that we propose, inspired by quantum dots, where a short-range interaction is added to a harmonic confinement.
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