Integrable quantum Stäckel systems

Authors:

• Maciej Błaszak,
• Ziemowit Domański,
• Artur Sergyeyev,
• Błażej Marek Szablikowski

Abstract

The Stäckel separability of a Hamiltonian system is well known to ensure existence of a complete set of Poisson commuting integrals of motion quadratic in the momenta. We consider a class of Stäckel separable systems where the entries of the Stäckel matrix are monomials in the separation variables. We show that the only systems in this class for which the integrals of motion arising from the Stäckel construction keep commuting after quantization are, up to natural equivalence transformations, the so-called Benenti systems. Moreover, it turns out that the latter are the only quantum separable systems in the class under study. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.