Effective quantum description of the Hydrogen atom at semiclassical level

I. M. Suarez Barnes

Andrés Felipe Ortiz, Snehanshu Saha

Guillermo Chacón‐Acosta, Héctor H. Hernández

We study the Hydrogen atom as a quantum mechanical system with a Coulomb like potential, with a semiclassical approach based on an effective description of quantum mechanics. This treatment allows us to describe the quantum state of the system as a system of infinite many classical equations for expectation values of configuration variables, their moments and quantum dispersions. It also provides a semiclassical description of the orbits and the evolution of observables and spreadings and their back-reaction on the evolution.

Hermann Haken, Hans Christoph Wolf

Владимир Владимирович Белов, V M Olive, J L Volkova

For pt.I, see ibid, p.5799-5810. On the basis of the complex WKB method, new spectral series for perturbed states of an 'anisotropic' hydrogen atom, taking into account the electron's spin polarization in a homogeneous magnetic field are constructed. These series correspond to conditionally periodic motions of a classical electron in the plane orthogonal to the field direction. The semiclassical wavefunctions are regular in the entire configuration space including the focal points and have the 'superscar' properties near the domain of classical motion, i.e. near the projection of stable two-dimensional Lagrangian tori on the configuration space. Both for Schrodinger and Pauli operators the analytical description of the semiclassical wavefunctions 'superscar' structure is obtained. This structure is non-uniform with respect to the space coordinates and has singularities with respect to the parameter h(cross),h(cross) to 0, near focal points. In the limit case of strong magnetic fields explicit analytical formulae for the semiclassical energy levels are obtained.

Hermann Haken, Hans Christoph Wolf