Quantum Structures of the Hydrogen Atom
Abstract
Modern quantum theory introduces quantum structures (decompositions into subsystems) as a new discourse that is not fully comparable with the classical-physics counterpart. To this end, so-called Entanglement Relativity appears as a corollary of the universally valid quantum mechanics that can provide for a deeper and more elaborate description of the composite quantum systems. In this paper we employ this new concept to describe the hydrogen atom. We offer a consistent picture of the hydrogen atom as an open quantum system that naturally answers the following important questions: (a) how do the so called "quantum jumps" in atomic excitation and de-excitation occur? and (b) why does the classically and seemingly artificial "center-of-mass + relative degrees of freedom" structure appear as the primarily operable form in most of the experimental reality of atoms?
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.3172,
title = {Quantum Structures of the Hydrogen Atom},
author = {J. Jeknic-Dugic and M. Dugic and A. Francom and M. Arsenijevic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3172},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
14 pages, no figures, in press, Open Access Library Journal (2014)