Runge-Lenz vector, accidental SU(2) symmetry, and unusual multiplets for motion on a cone

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2007.08.004zbMATH Open1139.81038arXiv0707.4379OpenAlexW3105791154MaRDI QIDQ2467709FDOQ2467709

M. H. Al-Hashimi, U.-J. Wiese

Publication date: 28 January 2008

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a particle moving on a cone and bound to its tip by $1/r$ or harmonic oscillator potentials. When the deficit angle of the cone divided by $2pi$ is a rational number, all bound classical orbits are closed. Correspondingly, the quantum system has accidental degeneracies in the discrete energy spectrum. An accidental SU(2) symmetry is generated by the rotations around the tip of the cone as well as by a Runge-Lenz vector. Remarkably, some of the corresponding multiplets have fractional ``spin and unusual degeneracies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.4379

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsself-adjoint extensionmotion on a conefractional spinaccidental symmetrySU(2) algebra and unusual multiplets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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