Arbitrarily accurate eigenvalues for one-dimensional polynomial potentials

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/41/314MaRDI QIDQ4469901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Y. Meurice

Publication date 22 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0202047

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Numerical solution of eigenvalue problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L15) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04)

Abstract: We show that the Riccati form of the Schrodinger equation can be reformulated in terms of two linear equations depending on an arbitrary function G. When $G$ and the potential are polynomials, the solutions of these two equations are entire functions (L and K) and the zeroes of K are identical to those of the wave function. Requiring such a zero at a large but finite value of the argument yields the low energy eigenstates with exponentially small errors. Judicious choice of G can improve dramatically the numerical treatment. The method yields many significant digits with modest computer means.

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