Quantum Bound States with Zero Binding Energy

Abstract

After reviewing the general properties of zero-energy quantum states, we give the explicit solutions of the \seq with $E=0$ for the class of potentials $V=-|\gamma |/r^{\nu }$, where $-\infty <\nu <\infty$. For $\nu >2$, these solutions are normalizable and correspond to bound states, if the angular momentum quantum number $l>0$. [These states are normalizable, even for $l=0$, if we increase the space dimension, $D$, beyond 4; i.e. for $D>4$.] For $\nu <-2$ the above solutions, although unbound, are normalizable. This is true even though the corresponding potentials are repulsive for all $r$. We discuss the physics of these unusual effects.

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