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A quantum particle on a circle in a quadratic potential exhibits a spectrum that is not harmonic, despite having all algebraic properties of the quantum harmonic oscillator. This raises the question where the usual algebraic argument --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Daniel Burgarth , Paolo Facchi

Quantum mechanics ordinarily describes particles as being pointlike, in the sense that the uncertainty $\Delta x$ can, in principle, be made arbitrarily small. It has been shown that suitable correction terms to the canonical commutation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Achim Kempf

According to the pioneering work of Nielsen and collaborators, the length of the minimal geodesic in a geometric realization of a suitable operator space provides a measure of the quantum complexity of an operation. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

We study the bound states of a quantum mechanical system consisting of a simple harmonic oscillator with an inverse square interaction, whose interaction strength is governed by a constant $\alpha$. The singular form of this potential has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Rufus Boyack , Asadullah Bhuiyan , Aneca Su , Frank Marsiglio

We start a series of studies of the excitation of an optical target by quantum light. In this first part, we introduce the problematic and address the first case of interest, that of exciting the quantum harmonic oscillator, corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 J. C. López Carreño , F. P. Laussy

An operator-valued quantum phase space formula is constructed. The phase space formula of Quantum Mechanics provides a natural link between first and second quantization, thus contributing to the understanding of quantization problem. By…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Dong-Sheng Wang

We provide a new canonical approach for studying the quantum mechanical damped harmonic oscillator based on the doubling of degrees of freedom approach. Explicit expressions for Lagrangians of the elementary modes of the problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Rabin Banerjee , Pradip Mukherjee

The three-dimensional potential equation, motivated by representations of quantum mechanics, is investigated in four different scenarios: (i) In the usual Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}_{3}$ where the potential is singular but invariant under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-12 Anadijiban Das , Andrew DeBenedictis

With the aim to construct a dynamical model with quantum group symmetry, the $q$-deformed Schr\"odinger equation of the harmonic oscillator on the $N$-dimensional quantum Euclidian space is investigated. After reviewing the differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ursula Carow-Watamura , Satoshi Watamura

An improved hyperspherical harmonic method for the quantum three-body problem is presented to separate three rotational degrees of freedom completely from the internal ones. In this method, the Schr\"{o}dinger equation of three-body problem…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Zhong-Qi Ma , An-Ying Dai

Undergraduate quantum mechanics focuses on teaching through a wavefunction approach in the position-space representation. This leads to a differential equation perspective for teaching the material. However, we know that abstract…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-05-02 James K. Freericks , Leanne Doughty

We describe a quantum system consisting of a one-dimensional linear chain of n identical harmonic oscillators coupled by a nearest neighbor interaction. Two boundary conditions are taken into account: periodic boundary conditions (where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Lievens , N. I. Stoilova , J. Van der Jeugt

The dynamical law obeyed by the one-dimensional physical systems in the scale relativity approach is reduced to a Riccati nonlinear differential equation. Applied to the harmonic oscillator potential, we show that such an approach permits…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 Moise Bonilla , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

A new approach in solution of simple quantum mechanical problems in deformed space with minimal length is presented. We propose the generalization of Schro\"edinger equation in momentum representation on the case of deformed Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 M. I. Samar , V. M. Tkachuk

An adapted representation of quantum mechanics sheds new light on the relationship between quantum states and classical states. In this approach the space of quantum states splits into a product of the state space of classical mechanics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Christoph Nölle

We write a computer program that uses the recursion relation to calculate wave function in the harmonic-oscillator potential for specified values of E/hv (with its deviation 0.001) containing only even numbers of v (0,2,4,...). In this…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Omer Sise

Exact analytical, closed-form solutions, expressed in terms of special functions, are presented for the case of a three-dimensional nonlinear quantum oscillator with a position dependent mass. This system is the generalization of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Axel Schulze-Halberg , John R. Morris

During recent years, exact solutions of position-dependent mass Schr\"odinger equations have inspired intense research activities, based on the use of point canonical transformations, Lie algebraic methods or supersymmetric quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Quesne

A technique to reconstruct one-dimensional, reflectionless potentials and the associated quantum wave functions starting from a finite number of known energy spectra is discussed. The method is demonstrated using spectra that scale like the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-04 Thomas D. Gutierrez

We consider a set of N linearly coupled harmonic oscillators and show that the diagonalization of this problem can be put in geometrical terms. The matrix techniques developed here allowed for solutions in both the classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. R. Bosco de Magalhães , C. H. d'Ávila Fonseca , M. C. Nemes