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Inter-relations between additive shape invariant superpotentials

Quantum Physics 2020-03-05 v2

Abstract

All known additive shape invariant superpotentials in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics belong to one of two categories: superpotentials that do not explicitly depend on \hbar, and their \hbar-dependent extensions. The former group themselves into two disjoint classes, depending on whether the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation can be reduced to a hypergeometric equation (type-I) or a confluent hypergeometric equation (type-II). All the superpotentials within each class are connected via point canonical transformations. Previous work showed that type-I superpotentials produce type-II via limiting procedures. In this paper we develop a method to generate a type I superpotential from type II, thus providing a pathway to interconnect all known additive shape invariant superpotentials.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02704,
  title  = {Inter-relations between additive shape invariant superpotentials},
  author = {Jeffry V. Mallow and Asim Gangopadhyaya and Jonathan Bougie and Constantin Rasinariu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02704},
  year   = {2020}
}

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