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Time-independent Green's Function of a Quantum Simple Harmonic Oscillator System and Solutions with Additional Generic Delta-Function Potentials

Quantum Physics 2017-12-05 v2

Abstract

The one-dimensional time-independent Green's function G0G_0 of a quantum simple harmonic oscillator system (V0(x)=mω2x2/2V_0(x)=m \omega^2 x^2/2) can be obtained by solving the equation directly. It has a compact expression, which gives correct eigenvalues and eigenfunctions easily. The Green's function GG with an additional delta-function potential can be obtained readily. The same technics of solving the Green's function G0G_0 can be used to solve the eigenvalue problem of the simple harmonic oscillator with an generic delta-function potential at an arbitrary site, i.e. V1(x)δ(xa)V_1(x)\propto \delta(x-a). The Wronskians play an important and interesting role in the above studies. Furthermore, the approach can be easily generalized to solve the quantum system of a simple harmonic oscillator with two or more generic delta-function potentials. We give the solutions of the case with two additional delta-functions for illustration.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00509,
  title  = {Time-independent Green's Function of a Quantum Simple Harmonic Oscillator System and Solutions with Additional Generic Delta-Function Potentials},
  author = {Chun-Khiang Chua and Yu-Tsai Liu and Gwo-Guang Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00509},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Revised, 16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics Communications

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