Bogomolny's semiclassical transfer operator for rotationally invariant integrable systems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/37/012MaRDI QIDQ4259741zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. A. Goodings, Niall D. Whelan

Publication date 14 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9803031

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier serieshydrogen atomspherical harmonicssemiclassical approximationtransfer operatorenergy eigenvaluesstationary phase approximationMaslov indicesisotropic harmonic oscillatorbilliard inside spherical cavitycircle billiardEinstein-Brillouin-Keller quantization conditionsharmonic potential with singular magnetic flux line

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: The transfer operator due to Bogomolny provides a convenient method for obtaining a semiclassical approximation to the energy eigenvalues of a quantum system, no matter what the nature of the analogous classical system. In this paper, the method is applied to integrable systems which are rotationally invariant, in two and three dimensions. In two dimensions, the transfer operator is expanded in a Fourier series in the angle variable, while in three dimensions it is expanded in spherical harmonics. In both cases, when the Fourier coefficients are evaluated using the stationary phase approximation, we arrive at the Einstein-Brillouin-Keller (EBK) quantization conditions. The associated Maslov indices are shown to agree with the results calculated by well-known simple rules. The theory is applied to several rotationally invariant systems, including the hydrogen atom and the isotropic harmonic oscillator in two and three dimensions, the circle billiard, a billiard inside a spherical cavity, and a harmonic potential with a singular magnetic flux line.

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