azimuthal quantum number


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azimuthal quantum number

n.
See second quantum number.
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It also shows that, for one principal quantum number, the energy increases with the increase of the azimuthal quantum number. The energy relation in the special case of [theta] = 0, that is, for vanishing NC parameter, gives
(2 + 1)-Dimensional Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau Oscillator under a Magnetic Field in the Presence of a Minimal Length in the Noncommutative Space
From this idea, he postulated the azimuthal quantum number. He later introduced the magnetic quantum number as well.
Suman, Seth. Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926

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