The canonical functions method and singular potentials

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(91)90288-VMaRDI QIDQ805174zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. Fakhreddine, Hafez Kobeissi

Publication date 1991

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(91)90288-v

zbMATH Keywords

canonical functions methodCoulomb potentialradial Schrödinger equationsingular potentialswave function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B05) Special ordinary differential equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.) (34B30) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10)

Review text

The aim of this paper is to show that the canonical functions method of the first author is a powerful alternative to the treatment outlined by \textit{L. Gr. Ixaru} [ibid. 72, 270-274 (1987; Zbl 0621.65099)] for the numerical integration of the radial Schrödinger equation \[ (1)\quad d^ 2y/dr^ 2+(E-U(r)-\ell (\ell +1)/r^ 2)y(r)=0. \] In this method the computation of the wave function y(r) (implying an initial value problem) is replaced by that of the canonical functions \(\alpha (r_ 0;r)\) and \(\beta (r_ 0;r)\) which are particular solutions of (1) with the initial values \(\alpha (r_ 0;r_ 0)=1,\quad \alpha '(r_ 0;r_ 0)=0,\quad \beta (r_ 0;r_ 0)=0,\quad \beta '(r_ 0;r_ 0)=1,\) \(r_ 0\) being an ``arbitrary origin, \(0<r_ 0<\infty\). To show the validity of the present method, the authors consider the Coulomb potential \(U(r)=- 2/r\) having the exact eigenvalues \(E=-1/(\ell +1)^ 2\).

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