Abstract
An integral representation is found for hypergeometric coherent states. It contains a generalized hypergeometric function. An asymptotic expansion of hypergeometric coherent states near is constructed. This expansion is used to find asymptotic eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian of the hydrogen atom in a magnetic field near the lower boundaries of spectral clusters.
Keywords:
hypergeometric coherent state; coherent transformation; generalized hypergeometric function MSC:
30E15
1. Introduction: Hypergeometric Coherent States
Hypergeometric coherent states were introduced in [1,2]. Let us recall their definition. Let an arbitrary representation of quadratic commutation relations be given in some Hilbert space L:
The generators of this representation are denoted by , . Define the operators
Let m, n be integer numbers, , and be a normalized “vacuum” vector subjected to the equations
We define hypergeometric coherent states as
where and the function
differs from the standard Bessel function of an imaginary argument [3] by the additional multiplier and the normalization, so that as . Then,
Here, , is an orthonormal basis in
where the numbers
and
is the Pochhammer symbol. The space is the space of polynomials over of a degree at most of endowed with the norm
where
The function has the form
where F is a hypergeometric series [4]
Finally, the vectors , form an orthonormal basis in some subspace on which an irreducible representation of the Karasev–Novikova algebra (1) is realized.
In particular, if the representation is implemented in the Hilbert space [2], where is a space with inner product
and is a joint eigensubspace of the operators
where
then the basis , has the form
Here, are Laguerre polynomials [3] and the normalization constants have the form
Note that, in the implementation specified above, the algebra consists of operators on commuting with and . The coherent transformation is given by the formula
Hypergeometric coherent states play an important role in quantum mechanics [2,5] and quantum optics [6,7]. For example, in [2], using coherent transformation (7), the global formulas were constructed for the asymptotic eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian of the hydrogen atom in a homogeneous magnetic field in which the polynomials are solutions of the spectral problem for the Heun equation. Coherent transformation (7) turns out to be very convenient from the point of view of the semiclassical approximation with respect to the parameter . For more information on the theory of coherent transformations, see [8,9]. The papers [10,11,12,13,14,15] are devoted to generalized hypergeometric coherent states, as well as nonlinear f-coherent states.
In this paper, an integral representation is found for at :
Here, is a generalized hypergeometric function [4], and the equation , where , , is a constant defining a circle oriented counterclockwise. For , hypergeometric coherent states are expressed in terms of Gegenbauer polynomials [3]:
In the papers [5,16,17], a general method was proposed for finding the asymptotics of the spectrum and asymptotic eigenfunctions near the boundaries of spectral clusters, which are formed near the eigenvalues of the unperturbed operator in the case of frequency resonance. It is based on a new integral representation. Using this method, the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum of the hydrogen atom in a magnetic field near the lower boundaries of spectral clusters was found in [5]. Coherent transformation (7) was used to construct the corresponding asymptotic eigenfunctions. At the same time, the main contribution to the norm of the asymptotic solution, as well as to the asymptotics of quantum averages, is made by a small neighborhood of the point , which plays the key role in constructing the asymptotics near the lower boundaries of spectral clusters (in the case of upper boundaries, such a point is ).
However, the methods developed in [5] use the unitarity of coherent transformation (7) and can only be applied when the norm and quantum averages are calculated in the space and the operators contained in the quantum averages can be represented as functions of the generators of the algebra . These requirements are not met in a number of problems. This is the case, for example, when studying the spectrum of the hydrogen atom in a self-consistent field near the boundaries’ spectral clusters. Therefore, the problem is to find the asymptotics of hypergeometric coherent states in a neighborhood of the point . This asymptotics is obtained in this paper (see (34)). It is derived using a semiclassical approximation of the function
that was constructed; this function is a solution of the equation
Asymptotic expansion (34), together with the expansions found in [5], make it possible to approximately calculate the norms and quantum averages of the hydrogen atom in a self-consistent field near the lower boundaries of spectral clusters. In addition, we note that (34) can be used in a number of other problems related to the hydrogen atom.
2. Integral Representation of Hypergeometric Coherent States
Let
Here,
Further, we use the relation [18]
where are Jacobi polynomials [3], from which, using (13), we obtain
For , we define the function
From (17), we express the function in terms of Gegenbauer polynomials.
Lemma 1.
The following relation holds:
Here, .
Proof.
We will use the method of mathematical induction. For , from (17), we obtain
Suppose that, for all , we have
Let
Since the following integral representation holds for Gegenbauer polynomials [3]:
where , is a circle oriented counterclockwise, it follows that the function can be represented as
Here, the polynomial
is expressed in terms of a generalized hypergeometric series
For , the following relation holds:
Theorem 1.
Hypergeometric coherent states at can be represented as(1).
3. Asymptotic Expansion of Hypergeometric Coherent States near
As is known [4], the function satisfies the differential equation
Here,
Following [5], we consider the numbers m and n, which correspond to the lower boundaries of spectral clusters. In this case,
where , and the constant a satisfies the inequalities
In addition, in Equation (10), we make the change . As a result, we obtain the equation
Here, and
Let us construct an asymptotic solution of Equation (26) in the form of WKB-approximation
We substitute (29) in Equation (26) and equate the summands at the equal powers of to zero. We obtain
Therefore,
The functions , are determined from the equations that, with (30) taken into account, are written as
We have
Here, , are constants. As a result, expansion (29) becomes
The constants are determined from the matching condition for expansions (27), (31) for of the order of . We obtain
from which, it follows that
Thus, we have proved the following lemma.
Lemma 2.
Let
We put as in [2,5]. In addition, we define
4. Conclusions
In this paper, an integral representation and an asymptotic expansion are found for hypergeometric coherent states in a neighborhood of the point . The methods applied in this case are of general nature. They can be used not only to study hypergeometric coherent states but also to study other coherent states from [9].
In [5], in the case of lower boundaries of spectral clusters, asymptotic expansions of and were constructed near the point . Together with expansion (34), they allow one to obtain the asymptotics of the coherent transformation defined by relation (7), and to use it further to calculate norms and quantum averages in problems related to the hydrogen atom.
Funding
The results were obtained in the framework of the state assignments of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (project FSWF-2020-0022).
Informed Consent Statement
Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to E. M. Novikova for useful discussions of the results of the paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The author declares no conflict of interest.
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