Expansion of a Wave Function in Terms of the Spherical Harmonics at a Different Site

Kouichi Hosaka, Yutaro Torizuka, Philipp Schmidt +4 more

An analytical expression of the angular correlation function of a pair of Lyman-$\ensuremath{\alpha}$ photons in the photodissociation of a hydrogen molecule is derived theoretically in a manner based on both atomic and molecular physics and quantum optics. The angular correlation function turns out to be expressed in terms of cosine (sine) functions of four angular variables of detectors with five coefficients. The angular correlation function is expanded in terms of the spherical harmonics for investigating which terms are involved, and we discuss the reason why they are involved. Interesting features are revealed in the expansion. We then search for a special detector arrangement where the angular-dependent terms vanish in the angular correlation function expressed in terms of the spherical harmonics. It turns out that no such detector arrangement in fact exists, but there is a special pair of detector arrangements where the angular-dependent terms vanish in the summation of two values of the angular correlation function expressed in terms of the spherical harmonics. We refer to such a pair of detector arrangements as a magic pair.

Boris Mikhailovich Karnakov, V. D. Mur, В. С. Попов

Naohisa Ogawa

The angular wave functions for a hydrogen atom are well known to be spherical harmonics, and are obtained as the solutions of a partial differential equation. However, the differential operator is given by the Casimir operator of the $SU(2)$ algebra and its eigenvalue $l(l+1) \hbar^2$, where $l$ is non-negative integer, is easily obtained by an algebraic method. Therefore the shape of the wave function may also be obtained by extending the algebraic method. In this paper, we describe the method and show that wave functions with different quantum numbers are connected by a rotational group in the cases of $l=0$, 1 and 2.

Marlina Slamet, Xiao‐Yin Pan, Viraht Sahni

W. Graham Richards

Fa‐Lin Lu, Chen Chang-Yuan, 盐城师范学院物理系，盐城 224002

By using the ordinary method of variable separation,the bound states of Klein-Gordon equation of the ring-shaped non-spherical harmonic oscillator with equal scalar and vector potentials are solved. The normalized angular wave function expressed in terms of the universal associatedLegendre polynomial and the normalized radial wave function expressed in terms of the confluent hyper-geometric function are presented. The exact energy spectrum equations are obtained.