Breaking (so(4) symmetry without degeneracy lift

DOI10.1007/978-4-431-55285-7_29MaRDI QIDQ5261357zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Pallares-Rivera, F. de J. Rosales-Aldape, Mariana Kirchbach

Publication date 3 July 2015

Published in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1281

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

Abstract: We argue that in the quantum motion of a scalar particle of mass "m" on S^3_R perturbed by the trigonometric Scarf potential (Scarf I) with one internal quantized dimensionless parameter, ell, the 3D orbital angular momentum, and another, an external scale introducing continuous parameter, B, a loss of the geometric hyper-spherical so(4) symmetry of the free motion can occur that leaves intact the unperturbed {mathcal N}^2-fold degeneracy patterns, with {mathcal N}=(ell +n+1) and n denoting the nodes number of the wave function. Our point is that although the number of degenerate states for any {mathcal N} matches dimensionality of an irreducible so(4) representation space, the corresponding set of wave functions do not transform irreducibly under any so(4). Indeed, in expanding the Scarf I wave functions in the basis of properly identified so(4) representation functions, we find power series in the perturbation parameter, B, where 4D angular momenta Kin [ell , {mathcal N}-1] contribute up to the order left(frac{2mR^2B}{hbar^2} ight)^{{mathcal N}-1-K}. In this fashion, we work out an explicit example on a symmetry breakdown by external scales that retains the degeneracy. The scheme extends to so(d+2) for any d.

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