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Could it be expected that deforming the sphere to an ellipsoid of revolution would cause splitting of energy levels or only shift the existing ones?
Edit: it would wreck the same symmetry that's with the ##p_x ,p_y ,p_z## orbitals of a hydrogen atom, but the answer is not immediately clear to me.
Edit: it would wreck the same symmetry that's with the ##p_x ,p_y ,p_z## orbitals of a hydrogen atom, but the answer is not immediately clear to me.