Semiclassical expansion of the smooth part of the density of states, with application to the hydrogen atom in a uniform magnetic field

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 Jul;76(1 Pt 2):016215. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.016215. Epub 2007 Jul 23.

Abstract

We present a method to compute the smooth part of the density of states in a semiclassical expansion when the Hamiltonian contains a Coulomb potential and non-Cartesian coordinates are appropriate. We apply this method to the case of the hydrogen atom in a magnetic field with fixed z component of the angular momentum. This is then compared with numerical results obtained by a high precision finite element approach. The agreement is excellent, especially in the chaotic region of the spectrum. The need to go beyond the Thomas-Fermi model is clearly established.