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Charged particles in external fields as physical examples of quasi-exactly solvable models: a unified treatment

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1 Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Quantum Physics

Abstract

We present a unified treatment of three cases of quasi-exactly solvable problems, namely, charged particle moving in Coulomb and magnetic fields, for both the Schr\"odinger and the Klein-Gordon case, and the relative motion of two charged particles in an external oscillator potential. We show that all these cases are reducible to the same basic equation, which is quasi-exactly solvable owing to the existence of a hidden sl2sl_2 algebraic structure. A systematic and unified algebraic solution to the basic equation using the method of factorization is given. Analytic expressions of the energies and the allowed frequencies for the three cases are given in terms of the roots of one and the same set of Bethe ansatz equations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011005,
  title  = {Charged particles in external fields as physical examples of quasi-exactly solvable models: a unified treatment},
  author = {Chun-Ming Chiang and Choon-Lin Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011005},
  year   = {2009}
}

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