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Discrete quantum model of the harmonic oscillator

Mathematical Physics 2009-11-13 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

We construct a new model of the quantum oscillator, whose energy spectrum is equally-spaced and lower-bounded, whereas the spectra of position and momentum are a denumerable non-degenerate set of points in [-1,1] that depends on the deformation parameter q from (0,1). We provide its explicit wavefunctions, both in position and momentum representations, in terms of the discrete q-Hermite polynomials. We build a Hilbert space with a unique measure, where an analogue of the fractional Fourier transform is defined in order to govern the time evolution of this discrete oscillator. In the limit q to 1, one recovers the ordinary quantum harmonic oscillator.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3089,
  title  = {Discrete quantum model of the harmonic oscillator},
  author = {Natig M. Atakishiyev and Anatoliy U. Klimyk and Kurt Bernardo Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3089},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages

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