Ionizing solutions to the hydrogen atom

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Are there any ionizing solutions for the hydrogen atom problem, where the electron breaks away from the proton?
 
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Of course. For E > 0 you have a continuum of unbound states. Same as for when E > V for a particle in a finite-barrier box.
 
I mean a solution where the electron transitions from being bound to breaking away... like in a collision.
 
And the answer is still "of course".

Why would a transition to an unbound state be fundamentally different than transitions between bound states? It isn't.
 
Could you help point me to one of these solutions then? I don't recall ever seeing the time-dependent Schrodinger equation solved for transitions or ionization and I'm not sure where to look...
 
The book by Landau and Lifshetz "Quantum Mechanics" has a fairly complete discussion of the continuum eigenstates of the hydrogen atom.
 

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