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Nodeless Coulomb radial eigenstate (R=Arℓe−r/[a0​(ℓ+1)])

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For the nonrelativistic point-Coulomb hydrogen Hamiltonian, the lowest radial state at fixed orbital angular momentum ℓ has principal quantum number n=ℓ+1 and no positive-radius wavefunction nodes. Substituting the displayed radial shape cancels the centrifugal inverse-square term and fixes a0​=4πϵ0​ℏ2/(me2). With b=a0​(ℓ+1) and unit-normalized spherical harmonic, A=(2/b)ℓ+3/2/(2ℓ+2)!​. Excited radial states require additional polynomial factors.

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