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Coulomb problem in non-commutative quantum mechanics - Exact solution

Mathematical Physics 2011-12-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

We investigate consequences of space non-commutativity in quantum mechanics of the hydrogen atom. We introduce rotationally invariant noncommutative space R^03\hat{\bf R}^3_0 - an analog of the hydrogen atom (HH-atom) configuration space R03=R3{0}{\bf R}^3_0\,=\, {\bf R}^3\setminus \{0\}. The space R^03\hat{\bf R}^3_0 is generated by noncommutative coordinates realized as operators in an auxiliary (Fock) space F{\cal F}. We introduce the Hilbert space H^\hat{\cal{H}} of wave functions ψ^\hat{\psi} formed by properly weighted Hilbert-Schmidt operators in F{\cal F}. Finally, we define an analog of the HH-atom Hamiltonian in R^03\hat{\bf R}^3_0 and explicitly determine the bound state energies EnλE^\lambda_n and the corresponding eigenstates ψ^njmλ\hat{\psi}^\lambda_{njm}. The Coulomb scattering problem in R^03\hat{\bf R}^3_0 is under study.

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@article{arxiv.1112.4643,
  title  = {Coulomb problem in non-commutative quantum mechanics - Exact solution},
  author = {Veronika Gáliková and Peter Prešnajder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.4643},
  year   = {2011}
}

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18 pages

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