Comment on ‘‘Hydrogen atom in one dimension’’
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 39 (8) , 4306-4307
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.39.4306
Abstract
In a recent paper Boya, Kmiecik, and Bohm [Phys. Rev. A 37, 3567 (1988)] discuss the one-dimensional hydrogen atom and mention what one should take if one wants to form parity eigenfunctions. In this Comment we show that such even and odd superpositions cannot represent physical states due to a superselection rule that leads to spontaneous breaking of the symmetry of inversion through the origin.Keywords
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