On the concepts of radial and angular kinetic energies

Details On the concepts of radial and angular kinetic energies On the concepts of radial and angular kinetic energies

2001-10-23

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110134v1

Phys. Rev. A 65, 022109 (2002)

Physics

Quantum Physics

10 pages, 2 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. A

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We consider a general central-field system in D dimensions and show that the division of the kinetic energy into radial and angular parts proceeds differently in the wavefunction picture and the Weyl-Wigner phase-space picture. Thus, the radial and angular kinetic energies are different quantities in the two pictures, containing different physical information, but the relation between them is well defined. We discuss this relation and illustrate its nature by examples referring to a free particle and to a ground-state hydrogen atom.

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