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One-dimensional model of a quantum nonlinear harmonic oscillator

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the quantization of the nonlinear oscillator introduced by Mathews and Lakshmanan. This system with position-dependent mass allows a natural quantization procedure and is shown to display shape invariance. Its energy spectrum is found by factorization. The linear harmonic oscillator appears as the λ0\lambda\to 0 limit of this nonlinear oscillator, whose energy spectrum and eigenfunctions are compared to the linear ones.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0501106,
  title  = {One-dimensional model of a quantum nonlinear harmonic oscillator},
  author = {J. F. Cariñena and M. F. Rañada and M. Santander},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0501106},
  year   = {2015}
}
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