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Isospectral mapping for quantum systems with energy point spectra to polynomial quantum harmonic oscillators

Quantum Physics 2021-02-02 v2

Abstract

We show that a polynomial H(N) of degree N of a harmonic oscillator hamiltonian allows us to devise a fully solvable continuous quantum system for which the first N discrete energy eigenvalues can be chosen at will. In general such a choice leads to a re-ordering of the associated energy eigenfunctions of H such that the number of their nodes does not increase monotonically with increasing level number. Systems H have certain universal features, we study their basic behaviours.

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@article{arxiv.1901.03250,
  title  = {Isospectral mapping for quantum systems with energy point spectra to polynomial quantum harmonic oscillators},
  author = {Ole Steuernagel and Andrei Klimov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03250},
  year   = {2021}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures

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