One-to-three oscillator degeneracy

ID: one-to-three-oscillator-degeneracy

For two independent quantum harmonic oscillators of frequencies and , the product state with occupation numbers has energy . For a fixed excitation integer , every allowed pair is , with . Each contributes one orthogonal product eigenvector, proving the displayed degeneracy. The offset two is the sum of the two zero-point energies in units of .

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