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A Numerical Treatment of Energy Eigenvalues of Harmonic Oscillators Perturbed by a Rational Function

Numerical Analysis 2016-10-13 v1

Abstract

In the present contribution, we apply the double exponential Sinc-collocation method (DESCM) to the one-dimensional time independent Schr\"odinger equation for a class of rational potentials of the form V(x)=p(x)/q(x)V(x) =p(x)/q(x). This algorithm is based on the discretization of the Hamiltonian of the Schr\"odinger equation using Sinc expansions. This discretization results in a generalized eigenvalue problem where the eigenvalues correspond to approximations of the energy values of the corresponding Hamiltonian. A systematic numerical study is conducted, beginning with test potentials with known eigenvalues and moving to rational potentials of increasing degree.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03613,
  title  = {A Numerical Treatment of Energy Eigenvalues of Harmonic Oscillators Perturbed by a Rational Function},
  author = {Philippe Gaudreau and Hassan Safouhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03613},
  year   = {2016}
}