One-dimensional quasi-relativistic particle in the box (Q2855833)

Asymptotics of the eigenvalues \(E_{n}\) of the one dimensional quasi-relativistic Hamiltonian or the Klein-Gordon square-root Hamiltonian with electrostatic potential, i.e., the Friedrichs extension on \(L^{2}(-a,a)\) of the operator \(\tilde H\) defined by \(\tilde Hf = (- \hbar^{2}c^{2} \frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}+m^{2}c^{4})^{1/2}f_{|(-a,a)}\), \(\forall f \in C^{\infty}_{0}(-a,a)\) are given, uniformly in \(n,\hbar, m, c \) and \(a\). The simplified version of the main theorem states that all the energy levels are non-degenerate and \(E_{n}=(\frac{k\pi}{2}-\frac{\pi}{2})\frac{\hbar c}{a} +O(\frac{1}{n})\) as \(n \rightarrow \infty\). In fact a more refined result where the error of the approximation is less than \(C_{1} \max (mc^{2}, \hbar ca^{-1})\exp(-C_{2}\hbar ^{-1}mca)n^{-1}\) is proved. As a byproduct, \(L^{2}\) approximations and \(L^{\infty}\) estimations for the eigenfunctions are obtained.