2000
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2789(00)00053-1
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Monodromy in the hydrogen atom in crossed fields

Abstract: We s h ow t hat t he h ydrogen atom in orthogonal electric and m agnetic elds has a special property of certain integrable classical Hamiltonian systems known as monodromy. T h e strength o f t he elds is assumed to b e s m all enough to v alidate t he u s e o f a normal form H snf which i s o b t ained from a two s t ep normalization of the o r i g i n al system. We c o n s i d er the l e v el sets o f H snf on the second r e d uced phase space. For an open set of eld parameters we s h ow t hat t here is a sp… Show more

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“…A natural question is whether (nontrivial) monodromy also can be defined for nonintegrable perturbations of the spherical pendulum. Answering this question is of interest in the study of semiclassical versions of such classical systems, see [14,8]. The results of the present paper imply that for an open set of Liouville integrable Hamiltonian systems, under a sufficiently small perturbation, the geometry of the fibration is largely preserved by a Whitney smooth diffeomorphism.…”
Section: Motivationmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…A natural question is whether (nontrivial) monodromy also can be defined for nonintegrable perturbations of the spherical pendulum. Answering this question is of interest in the study of semiclassical versions of such classical systems, see [14,8]. The results of the present paper imply that for an open set of Liouville integrable Hamiltonian systems, under a sufficiently small perturbation, the geometry of the fibration is largely preserved by a Whitney smooth diffeomorphism.…”
Section: Motivationmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…We emphasize that the idea of characterizing an aspect of the global geometry of the integrable Hamiltonian fibration by the parallel transport of homology cycles along a closed path is, with appropriate modifications, central to the concept of fractional monodromy and to our approach in the present paper. There are several examples of Hamiltonian systems with non-trivial monodromy and thus no global action coordinates, see [11,[13][14][15]17,23,34,35]. One sufficient condition for a system to have non-trivial monodromy is the existence of focus-focus singularities.…”
Section: The Matrix Of μ([γ ]) Is Called the Monodromy Matrix Along γmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some perturbed Keplerian systems like the lunar problem [14,40] and the hydrogen (or Rydberg) atom in crossed fields [15,21] display a helpful time scale phenomenon. In both cases the normal form…”
Section: Perturbations That Remove the Degeneracymentioning
confidence: 99%