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Correspondence identities. V. The zero-energy Coulomb problem

A Norcliffe

Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics, 1971

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Abstract

For Pt. IV see abstr. A41769 of 1969. The classical and quantal problem of a charged particle moving in an attractive Coulomb potential with total energy zero is considered. A complete correspondence identity is obtained by expressing the kernel of the quantum-mechanical spectral operator IE= delta (E-H) exactly in terms of the classical action function in momentum representation. Use is made of the dynamical symmetry properties exhibited by both the classical and quantal problems, and a path-integral method of evaluating the spectral operator kernel is also presented.

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