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In the 60-es and the 70-es, when the basic concepts of dynamical symmetries have been formulated and elaborated, only a few physical realizations of these symmetries could be found in the realm of existing quantum mechanical objects. One may mention the hydrogen atom (Section 2.2) and the harmonic oscillator in various spatial dimensions (Section 2.5) as the systems for which the study of their dynamical symmetries revealed additional facets of excitation spectra and response to external fields. Rapid progress of nanotechnology and nanophysics in the recent two decades significantly extended the field of applicability of these concepts and enriched the theory with some new ideas.
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Kikoin, K., Kiselev, M., Avishai, Y. (2012). Nanostructures as Artificial Atoms and Molecules. In: Dynamical Symmetries for Nanostructures. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99724-6_3
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