Perturbative solutions of quantum mechanical problems by symbolic computation

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(90)90258-3MaRDI QIDQ749182zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. C. Scott, R. A. Moore, Michael Monagan, G. Fee, Edward R. Vrscay

Publication date 1990

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(90)90258-3

zbMATH Keywords

decoupling techniqueone particle Dirac equationperturbation seriesperturbation theorySymbolic computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Review text

Symbolic computation is an effective alternative to many existing calculational methods for obtaining quantitative results. It represents the next level beyond the digital calculator as an efficient extension of the critical human mind. In this 30-page paper the authors have shown that the second author's decoupling technique is useful to achieve approximate solutions to the one particle Dirac equation, which is an example to meaningfully check the power of the new approach for solving quantum mechanical problems by perturbation theory. Here the use of an infinite basis set is avoided and each coefficient of the perturbation series is arrived at in a closed form. The techniques presented can be applied to other situations also and illustrations are given to indicate that symbolic computation has a great future.

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Uses Software

• Maple

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