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Using the modified factorization method employed in [5], we construct a new class of radial potentials whose spectrum for l=0 coincides exactly with that of the hydrogen atom. A limiting case of our family coincides with the potentials previously derived by Abraham and Moses [6].
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Fernández, D.J.C. New hydrogen-like potentials. Letters in Mathematical Physics 8, 337–343 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00400506
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