Localization or tunneling in asymmetric double-well potentials

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.08.029zbMATH Open1343.81102arXiv1608.01047OpenAlexW3105571621MaRDI QIDQ738245FDOQ738245

Dae-Yup Song

Publication date: 2 September 2016

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

Abstract: An asymmetric double-well potential is considered, assuming that the wells are parabolic around the minima. The WKB wave function of a given energy is constructed inside the barrier between the wells. By matching the WKB function to the exact wave functions of the parabolic wells on both sides of the barrier, for two almost degenerate states, we find a quantization condition for the energy levels which reproduces the known energy splitting formula between the two states. For the other low-lying non-degenerate states, we show that the eigenfunction should be primarily localized in one of the wells with negligible magnitude in the other. Using Dekker's method [Physica 146A (1987) 375], the present analysis generalizes earlier results for weakly biased double-well potentials to systems with arbitrary asymmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01047

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zbMATH Keywords

localizationquantum tunnelingdouble-well potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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