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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4225 - 4228 (1999)

Breakdown of Bohr's Correspondence Principle
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Bo Gao
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606

Featured in Phys. Rev. Focus Received 12 August 1999

Bohr's correspondence principle, i.e., the expectation that the semiclassical approximation works better for states with greater quantum numbers, is shown to break down in all quantum systems in which the asymptotic interaction between the fragments behaves as -Cn/rn with n>2.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v83/p4225
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4225
PACS: 03.65.-w, 31.15.Gy, 33.20.Tp

See Also

Comment: C. Boisseau, E. Audouard, and J. Vigué, Comment on “Breakdown of Bohr's Correspondence Principle”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2694 (2001)

Comment: C. Eltschka, H. Friedrich, and M. J. Moritz, Comment on “Breakdown of Bohr's Correspondence Principle”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2693 (2001)

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