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.
Cite
@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