Wide effectiveness of a sine basis for quantum-mechanical problems in d dimensions

DOI10.1155/2013/258203MaRDI QIDQ1953166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Richard L. Hall, Alexandra Lemus Rodríguez

Publication date 7 June 2013

Published in Advances in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4516

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Abstract: It is shown that the spanning set for L^2([0, 1]) provided by the eigenfunctions {sqrt{2} sin(npi x)}_{n=1}^{infty} of the particle-in-a-box in quantum mechanics provide a very effective variational basis for more general problems. The basis is scaled to [a,b], where a and b are then used as variational parameters. What is perhaps a natural basis for quantum systems confined to a spherical box in R^d, turns out to be appropriate also for problems that are softly confined by U-shaped potentials, including those with strong singularities at r=0. Specific examples are discussed in detail, along with some bound N-boson systems

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Summary: It is shown that the spanning set for \(L^2([0, 1])\) provided by the eigenfunctions \(\{\sqrt{2}\sin (n\mu x)\}^\infty_{n=1}\) of the particle in a box in quantum mechanics provides a very effective variational basis for more general problems. The basis is scaled to \([a, b]\), where \(a\) and \(b\) are then used as variational parameters. What is perhaps a natural basis for quantum systems confined to a spherical box in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) turns out to be appropriate also for problems that are softly confined by \(U\)-shaped potentials, including those with strong singularities at \(r = 0\). Specific examples are discussed in detail, along with some bound \(N\)-boson systems.

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