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1. (a) The system under consideration has rotational degrees of freedom, allowing it to
rotate about two orthogonal axes perpendicular to the rigid rod connecting the two
masses. If we define the z axis as represented by the rod, then the Hamiltonian has the
form
(b) Since there are no rotations about the z axis, the eigenvalue of Lz is zero, so that the
eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian are
2( 1)
E
2I
with
= 0,1,2,3,…
(c) To get the energy spectrum we need an expression for the moment of inertia. We use
the fact that
I Mred a2
MC MN 12 14
M red M nucleon 6.46M nucleon
MC MN 26
2 2 / 2I
The energy difference between the ground state and the first excited state is
which leads to the numerical result
x y z
2. We use the connection sin cos ; sin sin ; cos to write
r r r
3 i 3 x iy
Y1,1 e sin ( )
8 8 r
3 3 z
Y1,0 cos ( )
4 4 r
3 i 3 x iy
Y1,1 (1)Y1,1* e sin ( )
8 8 r
Next we have
15 2i 2 15
Y2,2 e sin (cos 2 i sin2 )sin2
32 32
15
(cos2 sin2 2isin cos )sin2
32
15 x 2 y 2 2ixy
32 r2
15 i 15 (x iy)z
Y2,1 e sin cos
8 8 r2
and
5 5 2z2 x 2 y 2
(3cos 1)
2
Y2,0
16 16 r2
We may use Eq. (7-46) to obtain the form for Y2,1 and Y2,2 .
1 i
3. We use L Lx iLy to calculate Lx (L L ); Ly (L L ) . We may now
2 2
proceed
1 1
l,m1 | Lx | l,m2 l,m1 | L | l,m2 l,m1 | L | l,m2
2 2
i i
l,m1 | Ly | l,m2 l,m1 | L | l,m2 l,m1 | L | l,m2
2 2
and
which is easily obtained from the preceding result by interchanging m1 and m2.
1 2
l,m1 | (L2 L2z ) | l,m2 (l(l 1) m22 ) m1 ,m 2
2
2
l(l 1) 1 1
2 m2
2I1
2I3 2I1
where –l ≤ m ≤ l.
(b) The plot is given on the right.
2 2
(c) The spectrum in the limit that I1 >> I3 is just E m ,
2I3
with m = 0,1,2,…l. The m = 0 eigenvalue is nondegenerate, while the other ones are
doubly degenerate (corresponding to the negative values of m).
i
6. We will use the lowering operator L e ( icot ) acting on Y44. Since we
are not interested in the normalization, we will not carry the
factor.
Y43 e i ( i cot )e 4i sin4
e 3i 4 sin3 cos 4 cot sin 4 8e 3i sin 3 cos
Y42 e i ( i cot )e 3i sin 3 cos
e 2i 3sin2 cos 2 sin 4 3sin 2 cos2
Y41 e i ( icot )e 2i (6sin2 7sin 4
e i 12sin cos 28sin3 cos 26sin cos 7sin3 cos
2( 1)
E m
2I
xy yz zx
2 sin2 sin cos (sin cos )sin cos
r
1 e 2i e 2i e i e i e i e i
sin2 sin cos
2 2i 2i 2
Comparison with the table of Spherical Harmonics shows that all of these involve
combinations of 2 functions. We can therefore immediately conclude that the
0 is zero, and the probability of finding
probability of finding 6 2 iz one, since this
value corresponds to 2 .A look at the table shows that
32 32
e 2i sin 2 Y2,2 ; e 2i sin2 Y
15 15 2,2
8 8
e i sin cos Y2,1; e i sin cos Y
15 15 2,1
Thus
5 2 1
P2
4 15 6
1
P1
3
12.Since the particles are identical, the wave function e im must be unchanged under the
rotation + 2π/N. This means that m(2π/N ) = 2nπ, so that m = nN, with n =
0,±1,±2,±3,…
The energy is
2 m2 2N 2 2
E 2 n
2MR 2MR 2
The gap between the ground state (n = 0) and the first excited state (n =1) is
2 N 2
E as N
2MR 2
2
E
2MR 2