Symmetric Morse potential is exactly solvable
Abstract
Morse potential is defined on the full line, and it defines an exactly solvable 1-d quantum mechanical system with finitely many discrete eigenstates. By taking its right half and glueing it with the left half of its mirror image , , the symmetric Morse potential is obtained. The quantum mechanical system of this piecewise analytic potential has infinitely many discrete eigenstates with the corresponding eigenfunctions given by the Whittaker W function. The eigenvalues are the square of the zeros of the Whittaker function and its linear combination with as a function of with fixed and . This quantum mechanical system seems to offer an interesting example for discussing the Hilbert-P\'olya conjecture on the pure imaginary zeros of Riemann zeta function on Re.
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@article{arxiv.1611.05952,
title = {Symmetric Morse potential is exactly solvable},
author = {Ryu Sasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05952},
year = {2016}
}
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