Quantum confinement in 1D systems through an imaginary-time evolution method

DOI10.1142/S021773231550176XzbMATH Open1337.81054arXiv1801.06478MaRDI QIDQ2805082FDOQ2805082

Authors: Amlan K. Roy 

Publication date: 10 May 2016

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum confinement is studied by numerically solving time-dependent Schr"odinger equation. An imaginary-time evolution technique is employed in conjunction with the minimization of an expectation value, to reach the global minimum. Excited states are obtained by imposing the orthogonality constraint with all lower states. Applications are made on three important model quantum systems, namely, harmonic, repulsive and quartic oscillators; enclosed inside an impenetrable box. The resulting diffusion equation is solved using finite-difference method. Both symmetric and asymmetric confinement are considered for attractive potential; for others only symmetrical confinement. Accurate eigenvalue, eigenfunction and position expectation values are obtained, which show excellent agreement with existing literature results. Variation of energies with respect to box length is followed for small, intermediate and large sizes. In essence a simple accurate and reliable method is proposed for confinement in quantum systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06478

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusion equationharmonic oscillatorquartic potentialinverted oscillatorimaginary-time evolutionquantum confinement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) 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) Special approximation methods (nonlinear Galerkin, etc.) for infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (37L65)

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