Dislocations of arbitrary topology in Coulomb eigenfunctions
Mathematical Physics
2017-02-08 v2 math.MP
Spectral Theory
Abstract
For any finite link in 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 . This problem goes back to Berry, who constructed such eigenfunctions in the case where 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