Generalized comparison theorems in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/41/307zbMATH Open1044.81038arXivmath-ph/0208047OpenAlexW2081203246MaRDI QIDQ4469894FDOQ4469894

Authors: Richard L. Hall, Qutaibeh Katatbeh 

Publication date: 22 June 2004

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

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the discrete spectra of Schroedinger operators H = -Delta + V, where V(r) is an attractive potential in N spatial dimensions. Two principal results are reported for the bottom of the spectrum of H in each angular-momentum subspace H_{ell}: (i) an optimized lower bound when the potential is a sum of terms V(r) = V^{(1)}(r) + V^{(2)}(r), and the bottoms of the spectra of -Delta + V^{(1)}(r) and -Delta + V^{(2)}(r) in H_{ell} are known, and (ii) a generalized comparison theorem which predicts spectral ordering when the graphs of the comparison potentials V^{(1)}(r) and V^{(2)}(r) intersect in a controlled way. Pure power-law potentials are studied and an application of the results to the Coulomb-plus-linear potential V(r) = -a/r + br is presented in detail: for this problem an earlier formula for energy bounds is sharpened and generalized to N dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0208047

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) 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)

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