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Quantum monodromy in the two-centre problem
- Source :
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 36:L307-L314
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2003.
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Abstract
- Using modern tools from the geometric theory of Hamiltonian systems it is shown that electronic excitations in diatoms which can be modelled by the two-centre problem exhibit a complicated case of classical and quantum monodromy. This means that there is an obstruction to the existence of global quantum numbers in these classically integrable systems. The symmetric case of H+2 and the asymmetric case of H He++ are explicitly worked out. The asymmetric case has a non-local singularity causing monodromy. It coexists with a second singularity which is also present in the symmetric case. An interpretation of monodromy is given in terms of the caustics of invariant tori.
- Subjects :
- Integrable system
Mathematical analysis
Monodromy theorem
General Physics and Astronomy
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Quantum number
Hamiltonian system
Singularity
Monodromy
Invariant (mathematics)
Mathematics::Symplectic Geometry
Quantum
Mathematical Physics
Mathematics
Mathematical physics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13616447 and 03054470
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........de3b4bad88bf159a53f1e5ae65727454