State reconstruction and irregular wavefunctions for the hydrogen atom
- 7 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 30 (13) , 4783-4789
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/30/13/026
Abstract
Inspired by a recently proposed procedure by Leonhardt and Raymer for wavepacket reconstruction, we calculate the irregular wavefunctions for the bound states of the Coulomb potential. We select the irregular solutions which have the simplest semiclassical limit.Keywords
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