Degeneracy Breaking of Hydrogen Atom

Details Degeneracy Breaking of Hydrogen Atom Degeneracy Breaking of Hydrogen Atom

2008-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/0812.4262v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

6 pages, Master Thesis (2002)

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The three dimensional rotation group, SO(3), is a symmetry group of the normal hydrogen atom. Each reducible representation of this group can be associated with a degenerate energy level. If this atom is placed in an external magnetic field, the interaction between the orbital magnetic moment with this field will lead to a symmetry breaking where the symmetry group of the atom is a new group distinct from the SO(3) group. This phenomenon describes the normal Zeeman effect, where a degenerate energy level splits into several new energy levels. It is explicitly shown that each of the new energy levels can be associated with an irreducible representation of the new symmetry group.

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