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A quantum exactly solvable non-linear oscillator related with the isotonic oscillator

Quantum Physics 2010-11-16 v1

Abstract

A nonpolynomial one-dimensional quantum potential representing an oscillator, that can be considered as placed in the middle between the harmonic oscillator and the isotonic oscillator (harmonic oscillator with a centripetal barrier), is studied. First the general case, that depends of a parameter aa, is considered and then a particular case is studied with great detail. It is proven that it is Schr\"odinger solvable and then the wave functions Ψn\Psi_n and the energies EnE_n of the bound states are explicitly obtained. Finally it is proven that the solutions determine a family of orthogonal polynomials Pn(x){\cal P}_n(x) related with the Hermite polynomials and such that: (i) Every Pn{\cal P}_n is a linear combination of three Hermite polynomials, and (ii) They are orthogonal with respect to a new measure obtained by modifying the classic Hermite measure.

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@article{arxiv.0711.4899,
  title  = {A quantum exactly solvable non-linear oscillator related with the isotonic oscillator},
  author = {J. F. Cariñena and A. M. Perelomov and M. F. Rañada and M. Santander},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4899},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, 11 figures