 Coulomb bound state

A Coulomb bound state is a physical normalizable eigenfunction for an attractive potential $V(r)=-\gamma /r$, $\gamma >0$. For the usual regular boundary condition at the origin its energies are the displayed values, $N=1,2,\dots$. The spherically symmetric states have orbital angular momentum zero; series-termination quantization of the Coulomb radial equation constructs them as a polynomial times a decaying exponential. Square integrability on the punctured radial interval alone does not replace the physical condition at the origin.