Symmetries in nuclear, atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Quantum Physics
2016-09-08 v1 Condensed Matter
Mathematical Physics
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Nuclear Theory
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Abstract
This paper addresses the three following questions. (i) How the structures of group and of chain of groups enter nuclear, atomic and molecular spectroscopy? (ii) How these structures can be exploited, in a quantum- mechanical framework, in the problems of state labelling and (external) symmetry breaking? (iii) How it is possible to associate a Wigner-Racah algebra to a group or a chain of groups for making easier the calculation of quantum-mechanical matrix elements? Numerous examples illustrate the philosophy of qualitative and quantitative applications to spectroscopy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9711007,
title = {Symmetries in nuclear, atomic and molecular spectroscopy},
author = {Maurice Kibler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9711007},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
31 pages, Latex file. Lecture presented at the fifth Rhodanian Seminar in Physics `Symmetries in Physics' held at Dolomieu (France, 17-21 March 1997)