Revisiting double Dirac delta potential

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/37/4/045406MaRDI QIDQ3186996zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zafar Ahmed, Sachin Kumar, M. Sharma, Vibhu Sharma

Publication date 15 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07726

zbMATH Keywords

bound statesperfect transmission energiesreflection coefficientresonancestransmission coefficientzero reflection at zero energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Operations with distributions and generalized functions (46F10) 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) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: We study a general double Dirac delta potential to show that this is the simplest yet versatile solvable potential to introduce double wells, avoided crossings, resonances and perfect transmission ($T=1$). Perfect transmission energies turn out to be the critical property of symmetric and anti-symmetric cases wherein these discrete energies are found to correspond to the eigenvalues of Dirac delta potential placed symmetrically between two rigid walls. For well(s) or barrier(s), perfect transmission [or zero reflectivity, $R(E)$] at energy $E=0$ is non-intuitive. However, earlier this has been found and called "threshold anomaly". Here we show that it is a critical phenomena and we can have $0leR(0)<1$ when the parameters of the double delta potential satisfy an interesting condition. We also invoke zero-energy and zero curvature eigenstate ($psi(x)=Ax+B$) of delta well between two symmetric rigid walls for $R(0)=0$. We resolve that the resonant energies and the perfect transmission energies are different and they arise differently.

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