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Two charges on plane in a magnetic field I. "Quasi-equal" charges and neutral quantum system at rest cases

Atomic Physics 2016-06-30 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

Low-lying bound states for the problem of two Coulomb charges of finite masses on a plane subject to a constant magnetic field BB perpendicular to the plane are considered. Major emphasis is given to two systems: two charges with the equal charge-to-mass ratio (quasi-equal charges) and neutral systems with concrete results for the Hydrogen atom and two electrons (quantum dot). It is shown that for these two cases, but when a neutral system is at rest (the center-of-mass momentum is zero), some outstanding properties occur: in double polar coordinates in CMS (R,ϕ)(R, \phi) and relative (ρ,φ)(\rho, \varphi) coordinate systems (i) the eigenfunctions are factorizable, all factors except for ρ\rho-dependent are found analytically, they have definite relative angular momentum, (ii) dynamics in ρ\rho-direction is the same for both systems being described by a funnel-type potential; (iii) at some discrete values of dimensionless magnetic fields b1b \leq 1 the system becomes {\it quasi-exactly-solvable} and a finite number of eigenfunctions in ρ\rho are polynomials. The variational method is employed. Trial functions are based on combining for the phase of a wavefunction (a) the WKB expansion at large distances, (b) the perturbation theory at small distances (c) with a form of the known analytically (quasi-exactly-solvable) eigenfunctions. For the lowest states with relative magnetic quantum numbers s=0,1,2s=0,1,2 this approximation gives not less than 7 s.d., 8 s.d., 9 s.d., respectively, for the total energy E(B)E(B) for magnetic fields 0.049a.u.<B<2000a.u.0.049\, \text{a.u.} < B < 2000\, \text{a.u.} (Hydrogen atom) and 0.025a.u.B1000a.u.0.025\, \text{a.u.}\eqslantless B \eqslantless 1000\, \text{a.u.} (two electrons).

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@article{arxiv.1310.2308,
  title  = {Two charges on plane in a magnetic field I. "Quasi-equal" charges and neutral quantum system at rest cases},
  author = {M. A. Escobar-Ruiz and A. V. Turbiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2308},
  year   = {2016}
}

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38 pages, 8 figures, 11 tables