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Hydrogen atom in a spherical well: linear approximation

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, , Citation David Djajaputra and Bernard R Cooper 2000 Eur. J. Phys. 21 261 DOI 10.1088/0143-0807/21/3/309

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1 Department of Physics, West Virginia University, PO Box 6315, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA

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  1. Received 8 February 2000

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Abstract

We discuss the boundary effects on a quantum system by examining the problem of a hydrogen atom in a spherical well. Using an approximation method which is linear in energy we calculate the boundary corrections to the ground-state energy and wavefunction. We obtain the asymptotic dependence of the ground-state energy on the radius of the well.

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