Different eigenstates with the same eigenvalues are degenerate. This degeneracy can be split however if you turn on some perturbing field, such as an electric or magnetic field. An electric and magnetic field applied to degenerate atomic states result in Stark and Zeeman splitting.
LC On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 3:24:31 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 12:49:02 AM UTC, [email protected] wrote: >> >> http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/Quantum/node40.html >> > > Can we have different eigenfunctions with the same eigenvalue? How common > is this? TIA, AG > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
