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Ling Liu1, Jyotirmoy Rana1, Shijun Liao1,2,3
1School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Abstract:
The combined effects of external electric, magnetic, and Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux fields on the two-dimensional hydrogen atom embedded in both Debye and quantum plasmas modeled by the more general exponential cosine Coulomb (MGECSC) potential are investigated using the general analytic approach, namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The analytical convergent solutions are obtained for the ground state as well as excited states at both weak and strong intensity of the external fields. The influence of the screening parameters on the quantum levels are exhaustively explored in the presence of three external fields. It is worth emphasizing that our analytical HAM results have 4-10 digits of accuracy in comparison with the numerical results. In the framework of the HAM method, there is no any small parameter different from the perturbation. Owing to this advantage, the convergent accurate solutions always can be obtained by the HAM approach even for the strong external fields. There is no limit to the value of the parameters or the strength of the external fields. It is also observed that the combined effects of the external fields play an important role on the interaction potential profile and the applied external magnetic field is the most dominant in the hydrogen atomic system. Also note that the combined effect of the fields is stronger than individual effects in both Debye and quantum plasmas. The findings obtained by the HAM-based approach in this study shed substantial light on the more complicated problems in plasmas for the atomic systems or molecular physics.
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