Multipole expansions and Fock symmetry of the hydrogen atom

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/40/010zbMATH Open1106.81326arXivmath-ph/0606062OpenAlexW3104528504MaRDI QIDQ3418409FDOQ3418409

Jan-Michael Rost, A. V. Meremianin

Publication date: 5 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main difficulty in utilizing the O(4) symmetry of the Hydrogen atom in practical calculations is the dependence of the Fock stereographic projection on energy. This is due to the fact that the wave functions of the states with different energies are proportional to the hyperspherical harmonics (HSH) corresponding to different points on the hypersphere. Thus, the calculation of the matrix elements reduces to the problem of re-expanding HSH in terms of HSH depending on different points on the hypersphere. We solve this problem by applying the technique of multipole expansions for four-dimensional HSH. As a result, we obtain the multipole expansions whose coefficients are the matrix elements of the boost operator taken between hydrogen wave functions (i.e. hydrogen form-factors). The explicit expressions for those coefficients are derived. It is shown that the hydrogen matrix elements can be presented as derivatives of an elementary function. Such an operator representation is convenient for the derivation of recurrency relations connecting matrix elements between states corresponding to different values of the quantum numbers $n$ and $l$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0606062

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spherical harmonics (33C55) Atomic physics (81V45)

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