Quantum Structures of the Hydrogen Atom

TL;DR

This paper explores the quantum structure of the hydrogen atom using entanglement relativity, providing insights into quantum jumps and the emergence of classical-like degrees of freedom within a quantum framework.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of entanglement relativity to describe the hydrogen atom as an open quantum system, clarifying quantum jumps and the classical structure emergence.

Findings

Quantum jumps are explained through entanglement dynamics.

The classical center-of-mass and relative degrees of freedom emerge naturally.

Hydrogen atom modeled as an open quantum system with new insights.

Abstract

Modern quantum theory introduces quantum structures (decompositions into subsystems) as a new discourse that is not fully comparable with the classical-physics counterpart. To this end, so-called Entanglement Relativity appears as a corollary of the universally valid quantum mechanics that can provide for a deeper and more elaborate description of the composite quantum systems. In this paper we employ this new concept to describe the hydrogen atom. We offer a consistent picture of the hydrogen atom as an open quantum system that naturally answers the following important questions: (a) how do the so called "quantum jumps" in atomic excitation and de-excitation occur? and (b) why does the classically and seemingly artificial "center-of-mass + relative degrees of freedom" structure appear as the primarily operable form in most of the experimental reality of atoms?