On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 11:36:35 AM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > 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 >
Not to split hairs, but what does degenerate mean? AG > > > On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 3:24:31 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 12:49:02 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com >> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
