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Equivalent power law potentials

Quantum Physics 2018-09-14 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

It is shown that the radial Schroedinger equation for a power law potential and a particular angular momentum may be transformed using a change of variable into another Schroedinger equation for a different power law potential and a different angular momentum. It is shown that this leads to a mapping of the spectra of the two related power law potentials. It is shown that a similar correspondence between the classical orbits in the two related power law potentials exists. The well known correspondence of the Coulomb and oscillator spectra is a special case of a more general correspondence between power law potentials.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5594,
  title  = {Equivalent power law potentials},
  author = {C. V. Sukumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5594},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages. Typographical mistakes in the earlier version are corrected

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