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Two charges on plane in a magnetic field I. "Quasi-equal" charges and neutral quantum system at rest cases

arXiv:1310.2308 · doi:10.1016/j.aop.2013.10.010

Abstract

Low-lying bound states for the problem of two Coulomb charges of finite masses on a plane subject to a constant magnetic field perpendicular to the plane are considered. Major emphasis is given to two systems: two charges with the equal charge-to-mass ratio (quasi-equal charges) and neutral systems with concrete results for the Hydrogen atom and two electrons (quantum dot). It is shown that for these two cases, but when a neutral system is at rest (the center-of-mass momentum is zero), some outstanding properties occur: in double polar coordinates in CMS and relative coordinate systems (i) the eigenfunctions are factorizable, all factors except for -dependent are found analytically, they have definite relative angular momentum, (ii) dynamics in -direction is the same for both systems being described by a funnel-type potential; (iii) at some discrete values of dimensionless magnetic fields the system becomes {\it quasi-exactly-solvable} and a finite number of eigenfunctions in are polynomials. The variational method is employed. Trial functions are based on combining for the phase of a wavefunction (a) the WKB expansion at large distances, (b) the perturbation theory at small distances (c) with a form of the known analytically (quasi-exactly-solvable) eigenfunctions. For the lowest states with relative magnetic quantum numbers this approximation gives not less than 7 s.d., 8 s.d., 9 s.d., respectively, for the total energy for magnetic fields (Hydrogen atom) and (two electrons).

38 pages, 8 figures, 11 tables

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