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Dislocations of arbitrary topology in Coulomb eigenfunctions

Mathematical Physics 2017-02-08 v2 math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

For any finite link LL in R3\mathbb{R}^3 we prove the existence of a high-energy complex-valued eigenfunction of the hydrogen atom such that its nodal set contains a union of connected components diffeomorphic to LL. This problem goes back to Berry, who constructed such eigenfunctions in the case where LL is the trefoil knot or the Hopf link and asked the question about the general result.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03214,
  title  = {Dislocations of arbitrary topology in Coulomb eigenfunctions},
  author = {Alberto Enciso and David Hartley and Daniel Peralta-Salas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03214},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages

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