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Semi-infinite quantum wells in a position-dependent mass background

Quantum Physics 2023-05-04 v2

Abstract

By using a point canonical transformation starting from the constant-mass Schr\"odinger equation for the Morse potential, it is shown that a semi-infinite quantum well model with a non-rectangular profile associated with a position-dependent mass that becomes infinite for some negative value of the position, while going to a constant for a large positive value of the latter, can be easily derived. In addition, another type of semi-infinite quantum well associated with the same position-dependent mass is constructed and solved by starting from the Rosen-Morse II potential instead of the Morse one.

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@article{arxiv.2210.15502,
  title  = {Semi-infinite quantum wells in a position-dependent mass background},
  author = {C. Quesne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.15502},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages, 2 figures, published version

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