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View SchemaThe one dimensional Hydrogen atom revisited
| Authors | G. Palma, U. Raff |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0608038 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0608038 |
| DOI | 10.1139/P06-072 |
Abstract
The one dimensional Schroedinger hydrogen atom is an interesting mathematical and physical problem to study bound states, eigenfunctions and quantum degeneracy issues. This 1D physical system gave rise to some intriguing controversy over more than four decades. Presently, still no definite consensus seems to have been reached. We reanalyzed this apparently controversial problem, approaching it from a Fourier transform representation method combined with some fundamental (basic) ideas found in self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators. In disagreement with some previous claims, we found that the complete Balmer energy spectrum is obtained together with an odd parity set of eigenfunctions. Closed form solutions in both coordinate and momentum spaces were obtained. No twofold degeneracy was observed as predicted by the degeneracy theorem in one dimension, though it does not necessarily have to hold for potentials with singularities. No ground state with infinite energy exists since the corresponding eigenfunction does not satisfy the Schroedinger equation at the origin.
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