Angular momentum of a radial function times a linear polynomial

ID: angular-momentum-of-a-radial-function-times-a-linear-polynomial

Orbital angular momentum operators annihilate a radial multiplier . Their squared sum sends every degree-one homogeneous polynomial to times that polynomial, so a nonzero normalizable state has angular momentum quantum number . With real and real coefficients, its third-component expected value is zero by angular symmetry, though it need not be an eigenstate of that component.

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