Quantum mechanics of multi-prong potentials

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/18/022zbMATH Open0868.34064arXivhep-th/9408022OpenAlexW3105210311MaRDI QIDQ4335532FDOQ4335532

Authors: A. Pagnamenta, Asim Gangopadhyaya, Uday P. Sukhatme 

Publication date: 21 August 1997

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe the bound state and scattering properties of a quantum mechanical particle in a scalar $N$-prong potential. Such a study is of special interest since these situations are intermediate between one and two dimensions. The energy levels for the special case of $N$ identical prongs exhibit an alternating pattern of non-degeneracy and $(N-1)$ fold degeneracy. It is shown that the techniques of supersymmetric quantum mechanics can be used to generate new solutions. Solutions for prongs of arbitrary lengths are developed. Discussions of tunneling in $N$-well potentials and of scattering for piecewise constant potentials are given. Since our treatment is for general values of $N$, the results can be studied in the large $N$ limit. A somewhat surprising result is that a free particle incident on an $N$-prong vertex undergoes continuously increased backscattering as the number of prongs is increased.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9408022

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zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetric quantum mechanicsbackscatteringscattering propertiesquantum mechanical particlemulti-prong potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory, inverse scattering involving ordinary differential operators (34L25) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60)

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