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, [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.
