Algebra with polynomial commutation relations for the Zeeman-Stark effect in the hydrogen atom

摘要

We study the Zeeman-Stark effect for the hydrogen atom in crossed homogeneous electric and magnetic fields. A nonhomogeneous perturbing potential can also be present. If the crossed fields satisfy some resonance relation, then the degeneration in the resonance spectral cluster is removed only in the secondorder term of the perturbation theory. The averaged Hamiltonian in this cluster is expressed in terms of generators of some dynamical algebra with polynomial commutation relations; the structure of these relations is determined by a pair of coprime integers contained in the resonance ratio. We construct the irreducible hypergeometric representations of this algebra. The averaged spectral problem in the irreducible representation is reduced to a second- or third-order ordinary differential equation whose solutions are model polynomials. The asymptotic behavior of the solution of the original problem concerning the Zeeman-Stark effect in the resonance cluster is constructed using the coherent states of the dynamical algebra. We also describe the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum in nonresonance clusters, where the degeneration is already removed in the first-order term of the perturbation theory.