Exact Green's function for rectangular potentials and its application to quasi-bound states

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2014.03.042MaRDI QIDQ5964732zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. M. Andrade

Publication date 1 March 2016

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5964

zbMATH Keywords

bound stateGreen's functionrectangular potentialresonant scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: In this work we calculate the exact Green's function for arbitrary rectangular potentials. Specifically we focus on Green's function for rectangular quantum wells enlarging the knowledge of exact solutions for Green's functions and also generalizing and resuming results in the literature. The exact formula has the form of a sum over paths and always can be cast into a closed analytic expression. From the poles and residues of the Green's function the bound states eigenenergies and eigenfunctions with the correct normalization constant are obtained. In order to show the versatility of the method, an application of the Green's function approach to extract information of quasi-bound states in rectangular barriers, where the standard analysis of quantum amplitudes fail, is presented.

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