Comment on: “Some aspects of the interaction of a magnetic quadrupole moment with an electric field in a rotating frame” [J. Math. Phys. 58, 102103 (2017)]

Abstract

We discuss results obtained recently for a quantum-mechanical model given by a neutral particle with a magnetic quadrupole moment in a radial electric field and a scalar potential proportional to the radial variable in cylindrical coordinates that also includes the noninertial effects of a rotating reference frame. We show that the conjectured allowed values of the cyclotron frequency are a mere artifact of the truncation of the power series used to solve the radial eigenvalue equation. Our analysis proves that the analytical expression for the eigenvalues is incorrect.