A numerical damped oscillator approach to constrained Schrödinger equations

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/ABA70BarXiv2002.04400OpenAlexW3043541089MaRDI QIDQ6046434FDOQ6046434

Authors: Mårten Gulliksson 

Publication date: 11 May 2023

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

Abstract: This article explains and illustrates the use of a set of coupled dynamical equations, second order in a fictitious time, which converges to solutions of stationary Schr"{o}dinger equations with additional constraints. We include three qualitative different numerical examples: the radial Schr"{o}dinger equation for the hydrogen atom; the two-dimensional harmonic oscillator with degenerate excited states; and finally a non-linear Schr"{o}dinger equation for rotating states. The presented method is intuitive, with analogies in classical mechanics for damped oscillators, and easy to implement, either in own coding, or with software for dynamical systems. Hence, we find it suitable to introduce it in a continuation course in quantum mechanics or generally in applied mathematics courses which contain computational parts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04400

zbMATH Keywords

constraintsdegeneracyeigenenergiesnonlinear Schrödinger equationSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary differential equations (34-XX) Mechanics of particles and systems (70-XX)

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