Symmetric Morse potential is exactly solvable

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Authors Ryu Sasaki

Publication date 17 November 2016

Abstract: Morse potential $V_M(x)=g^{2}exp(2x)-g(2h+1)exp(x)$ is defined on the full line, $-infty<x<infty$ and it defines an exactly solvable 1-d quantum mechanical system with finitely many discrete eigenstates. By taking its right half $0lex<infty$ and glueing it with the left half of its mirror image $V_M(-x)$, $-infty<xle0$, the symmetric Morse potential $V(x)=g^{2}exp(2|x|)-g(2h+1)exp(|x|)$ is obtained. The quantum mechanical system of this piecewise analytic potential has infinitely many discrete eigenstates with the corresponding eigenfunctions given by the Whittaker W function. The eigenvalues are the square of the zeros of the Whittaker function $W_{k,u}(x)$ and its linear combination with $W{\text{'}}_{k,u}(x)$ as a function of $u$ with fixed $k$ and $x$. This quantum mechanical system seems to offer an interesting example for discussing the Hilbert-P'olya conjecture on the pure imaginary zeros of Riemann zeta function on Re$(s)=frac12$.

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