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On the physics of the $so_q(4)$ hydrogen atom

Quantum Physics 2015-12-14 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this work we investigate the qq-deformation of the so(4)so(4) dynamical symmetry of the hydrogen atom using the theory of the quantum group suq(2)su_q(2). We derive the energy spectrum in a physically consistent manner and find a degeneracy breaking as well as a smaller Hilbert space. We point out that using the deformed Casimir as was done before leads to inconsistencies in the physical interpretation of the theory.

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@article{arxiv.1211.6578,
  title  = {On the physics of the $so_q(4)$ hydrogen atom},
  author = {P. G. Castro and R. Kullock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6578},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages; major changes to section 3