The influence of the boundedness of polynomial potentials on the spectrum of the Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(92)90002-GMaRDI QIDQ1201063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Taşeli

Publication date 17 January 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(92)90002-g

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue problemHamiltoniannumerical examplespolynomial potentialsRayleigh-Ritz variational methodSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Numerical solution of eigenvalue problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L60) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Review text

The author studies the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation for polynomial potentials \(H\psi(x)=E\psi(x)\), \(x\in (-\infty,\infty)\) with \(\lim_{x\to \pm \infty}\psi(x)=0\). Here, the Hamiltonian of the system is given by \(H=-d^ 2/dx^ 2+V(x)\) with \(V(x)=\sum^{2M}_{i=1}v_ ix^ i\). The infinite interval \((-\infty,\infty)\) is replaced by a finite one \([-\alpha,\alpha]\) with the boundary condition \(\psi(- \alpha)=\psi(\alpha)=0\). The Rayleigh-Ritz variational method is applied to the new problem where the trigonometric functions are used as basis elements. Two numerical examples, with symmetrical and asymmetrical potential, are given for various values of \(\alpha\) and are compared with results of the infinite interval.

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