PARTIAL-WAVES IN THE NONSPHERICAL CASE

Many quantum mechanical problems are separable in one or several of th e standard classifications of general coordinate systems. The associat ed solution is most conveniently evaluated using expansions in Lame wa ve functions. We give here some preliminary numerical results displayi ng the continuous distortion of an s-, p-, and d-wave spherical harmon ic. The results indicate rather surprising features which may be usefu l in general quantum mechanical contexts. (C) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.