On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 12:14:29 AM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 7:29:30 AM UTC-5, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 >> > > Degeneracy is what I defined above. > > LC >
OK, but it's puzzling why we even get these degenerate states. 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.
