Finding generating functions for spherically symmetrized eigenstates of the three dimensional harmonic oscilator

Ajoy Kumar Ghatak, S. Lokanathan

Adam B. Cahaya

One dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator is well studied in elementary textbooks of quantum mechanics. The wave function of one-dimensional oscillator harmonic can be written in term of Hermite polynomial. Due to the symmetry of the spring energy, the wave functions of two-dimensional and three-dimensional harmonic oscillators can be written as products of the one-dimensional case. Because of that, the wave functions of two- and three-dimensional cases are focused on cartesian coordinates. In this article, we utilize polar and spherical coordinates to describe the wave function of two- and three-dimensional harmonic oscillators, respectively. The radial part of the wave functions can be written in term of associated Laguerre polynomials.

Govind S. Khandelwal

Roberto Floreanini B, Luc Lapointe, Luc Vinet

A group-theoretical description of N identical harmonic oscillators on a line is presented. It provides a scheme for labeling the energy eigenstates that are invariant under the permutation group SN and for obtaining the symmetric operators that transform these degenerate eigenfunctions among themselves. The symmetry algebra that these generators form is in general polynomial. The 2- and 3-particle cases are considered in detail. For the simple 2-body problem the invariance algebra is found to be the cubic SU(2) algebra: [J0,J±]=±J±, [J+,J−]=2J0−αJ03. In the 3-body case, the permutational invariant states are characterized with the help of the subgroup chain U(3)⊃U(2)⊃O(2). The labeling and step operators are obtained from determining an integrity basis for the S3 scalar in U(U(3)). Generating functions techniques are used to that end; an eight-dimensional basis is found whose elements span the symmetry algebra of the three identical oscillator problem. These constants of motion are seen to generate a nonlinear algebra whose representation on the symmetric states is provided.

Francisco Marcelo Fernández

FU Xi-jin

Based on the schrodinger function,the eigenfunctions and eigenvalue for three–dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator were derived in Cartesian coordinate system and in Spherical coordinate system respectively,the relationship between the two eigenfunctions were obtained.