Bound state eigenfunctions need to vanish faster than | x{| }^{-3/2}

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/37/4/045404MaRDI QIDQ3186993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zafar Ahmed

Publication date 15 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05902

zbMATH Keywords

bound statesSchrödinger equationuncertainty principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: In quantum mechanics students are taught to practice that eigenfunction of a physical bound state must be continuous and vanishing asymptotically so that it is normalizable in $xin(-infty,infty)$. Here we caution that such states may also give rise to infinite uncertainty in position $(Deltax=infty)$, whereas $Deltap$ remains finite. Such states may be called loosely bound and spatially extended states that may be avoided by an additional condition that the eigenfunction vanishes asymptotically faster than $|x{|}^{-3/2}$.

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