A numerical damped oscillator approach to constrained Schrödinger equations

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/ABA70BMaRDI QIDQ6046434OpenAlexFDO

Authors Mårten Gulliksson

Publication date 11 May 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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)

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.

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