Coulomb plus power-law potentials in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/25/307zbMATH Open1041.81520arXivmath-ph/0305018OpenAlexW3105548542MaRDI QIDQ4467946FDOQ4467946

Authors: Hakan Çiftçi, Richard L. Hall, Qutaibeh Katatbeh 

Publication date: 10 June 2004

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

Abstract: We study the discrete spectrum of the Hamiltonian H = -Delta + V(r) for the Coulomb plus power-law potential V(r)=-1/r+ beta sgn(q)r^q, where beta > 0, q > -2 and q e 0. We show by envelope theory that the discrete eigenvalues E_{nell} of H may be approximated by the semiclassical expression E_{nell}(q) approx min_{r>0}{1/r^2-1/(mu r)+ sgn(q) beta(nu r)^q}. Values of mu and nu are prescribed which yield upper and lower bounds. Accurate upper bounds are also obtained by use of a trial function of the form, psi(r)= r^{ell+1}e^{-(xr)^{q}}. We give detailed results for V(r) = -1/r + beta r^q, q = 0.5, 1, 2 for n=1, ell=0,1,2, along with comparison eigenvalues found by direct numerical methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0305018

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04)

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