Anisotropic quantum harmonic oscillator
ID: anisotropic-quantum-harmonic-oscillator
For a positive diagonal quadratic potential , coordinate Hamiltonians commute and wavefunctions separate into one-dimensional oscillator factors. Equality of two squared frequencies gives rotation symmetry in their plane; equality of all three gives full rotation symmetry. Equalities create energy degeneracies and extra conserved angular momentum. Merely finding an accidental equality between particular level energies does not establish a global rotational symmetry.
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