Harmonic Oscillator in a 1D or 2D Cavity with General Perfectly Reflecting Walls

DOI10.1080/00268976.2012.716526arXiv1205.2787MaRDI QIDQ6232952FDOQ6232952

Authors: M. H. Al-Hashimi 

Publication date: 12 May 2012

Abstract: We investigate the simple harmonic oscillator in a 1-d box, and the 2-d isotropic harmonic oscillator problem in a circular cavity with perfectly reflecting boundary conditions. The energy spectrum has been calculated as a function of the self-adjoint extension parameter. For sufficiently negative values of the self-adjoint extension parameter, there are bound states localized at the wall of the box or the cavity that resonate with the standard bound states of the simple harmonic oscillator or the isotropic oscillator. A free particle in a circular cavity has been studied for the sake of comparison. This work represents an application of the recent generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation related to the theory of self-adjoint extensions in a finite volume.

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