Physical Problems Solved by the Phase-Integral Method
Singular perturbations, turning point theory, WKB methods for ordinary differential equations (34E20) Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (65L99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)
This is an excellent book on the phase-integral method written by two experts in this subject. In spite of it is restricted to the problems that can be reduced to the treatment only of a one-dimensional differential equation of the Schrodinger type, this book fills a gap in the literature concerning the description of a large list of physical problems solved by the phase-integral method. After a short historical survey (Ch.1) the authors introduce the readers to the phase-integral method in Ch.2. The basic ideas, notations and definitions are presented in Ch.2.1 (Form of the wave function and the q-equation) and in Ch.2.2 (Phase-integral approximation generated from an unspecified base function). Ch.2.3 (F-matrix method) and Ch.2.4 (F-matrix connecting points on opposite sides of a well-isolated turning point, and expressions for the wave functions in these regions) are dedicated to invented by the authors F-matrix method for the solution of connection problems. This chapter is concluded by a detailed treatment of transmission through a real, single-hump potential barrier, Ch.2.5 (Phase-integral connection formulas for a real , smooth, single-hump potential barrier). The central part of the book is Ch.3 (Problems with solutions) , which occupies almost \(3/4\) of the space by an abundant list of solutions of concrete problems. This chapter presents phase-integral solutions of quantum problems of various degree of difficulties. In particular, it is important that a part of the material presented remedies unsatisfactory treatments within the WKB approximation, often repeated in the literature. Another peculiarity of this chapter (and the book) is the systematic application of the F-matrix method presented in the Ch.2.4 for the first time.
- Asymptotics of the far fields of internal gravity waves excited by a source of radial symmetry
- Uniform asymptotics of internal gravitational wave fields from an initial radially symmetric perturbation
- Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin solutions to an equation of internal gravity waves in a stratified medium with slowly varying shear flows
- A WKB derivation for internal waves generated by a horizontally moving body in a thermocline
- Computing the complex zeros of special functions
- A flea on Schrödinger's cat
- Francesco Carlini: Kepler's equation and the asymptotic solution to singular differential equations
- Uniform and nonuniform asymptotics of far surface fields from a flashed localized source
- An analytic evaluation of gravitational particle production of fermions via Stokes phenomenon
- Phase-integral formulas for quantal matrix elements
- Phase-integral method for the radial Dirac equation
- Study of the surface wave vibrations in a functionally graded material layered structure: a WKB method
- A Sequence of Polynomials Generated by a Kapteyn Series of the Second Kind
- Stokes constants for a singular wave equation
- Phase-integral calculation of the phase of the regular Coulomb wave function FL(η,ρ)
- Study of the validity of the phase-integral connection formula for potential barriers of arbitrary thickness
- Alternative phase-integral approximations
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 855655 (Why is no real title available?)
- Semiclassical analysis of the tensor power spectrum in the Starobinsky inflationary model
- Stokes phenomenon and gravitational particle production -- how to evaluate it in practice
- Superadiabatic basis in cosmological particle production: application to preheating
- Reformulating the Schrödinger equation as a Shabat-Zakharov system
- Phase-integral solution of the radial Dirac equation
- Phase integral approximation for coupled ordinary differential equations of the Schrödinger type
- Uniform observation of semiclassical Schrödinger eigenfunctions on an interval
- Far fields asymptotics of internal gravity waves from a pulse localized source in a rotating stratified medium
- Semiclassical transmission through a curved wedge potential barrier
- A WKB approximation for the divergence-buckling instability of a travelling web
- Localization or tunneling in asymmetric double-well potentials
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