Solving the Coulomb Schrödinger equation in d= 2+1 via sinc collocation

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1996.0191MaRDI QIDQ1815889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vasilios G. Koures

Publication date 19 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9510006

zbMATH Keywords

convergencelight cone quantizationquantum electrodynamicsradial Coulomb Schrödinger equationsinc collocation methodsingular Sturm-Liouville system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Numerical solution of eigenvalue problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We solve the non-relativistic Coulomb Shrodinger equation in d = 2+1 via sinc collocation. We get excellent convergence using a generalized sinc basis set in position space. Since convergence in position space could not be obtained with more common numerical techniques, this result helps to corroborate the conjecture that the use of a localized basis set within the context of light cone quantization can yield much better convergence. All of the computations presented here were performed on an IBM-compatible PC with an Intel 486DX2-66 microchip.

Review text

Light cone quantization of quantum field theory is considered and the light cone radial Coulomb Schrödinger equation in 2+1 dimensions is solved. The power of the sinc collocation method used is demonstrated. The Coulomb Schrödinger equation is derived from the light cone quantization formalism. After transformations the singular Sturm-Liouville system \[ -f(x)+\left[{4l^2-1\over 4x^2} +\ln x\right]f(x)=\lambda f(x) \] is obtained and solved by sinc collocation. A good convergence is attained.

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