Quantum solvability of a general ordered position dependent mass system: Mathews-Lakshmanan oscillator

DOI10.1063/1.5008993zbMATH Open1373.81201arXiv1709.06269OpenAlexW2755151821MaRDI QIDQ4592870FDOQ4592870

Authors: S. Karthiga, V. Chithiika Ruby, M. Senthilvelan, M. Lakshmanan 

Publication date: 9 November 2017

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

Abstract: In position dependent mass (PDM) problems, the quantum dynamics of the associated systems have been understood well in the literature for particular orderings. However, no efforts seem to have been made to solve such PDM problems for general orderings to obtain a global picture. In this connection, we here consider the general ordered quantum Hamiltonian of an interesting position dependent mass problem, namely the Mathews-Lakshmanan oscillator, and try to solve the quantum problem for all possible orderings including Hermitian and non-Hermitian ones. The other interesting point in our study is that for all possible orderings, although the Schr"odinger equation of this Mathews-Lakshmanan oscillator is uniquely reduced to the associated Legendre differential equation, their eigenfunctions cannot be represented in terms of the associated Legendre polynomials with integral degree and order. Rather the eigenfunctions are represented in terms of associated Legendre polynomials with non-integral degree and order. We here explore such polynomials and represent the discrete and continuum states of the system. We also exploit the connection between associated Legendre polynomials with non-integral degree with other orthogonal polynomials such as Jacobi and Gegenbauer polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06269

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spherical harmonics (33C55) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) 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) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80)

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