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We discuss several problems in quasiclassical physics for which approximate solutions were recently obtained by a new method, and which can also be solved by novel versions of the Born–Oppenheimer approximation. These cases include the so-called bouncing ball modes, low angular momentum states in perturbed circular billiards, resonant states in perturbed rectangular billiards, and whispering gallery modes. Some rare, special eigenstates, concentrated close to the edge or along a diagonal of a nearly rectangular billiard are found. This kind of state has apparently previously escaped notice.
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Zaitsev, O., Narevich, R. & Prange, R.E. Quasiclassical Born–Oppenheimer Approximations. Foundations of Physics 31, 7–26 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004153019473
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