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We perform a study of various anharmonic potentials using a recently developed method. We calculate both the wave functions and the energy eigenvalues for the ground and first excited states of the quartic, sextic and octic potentials with…
A quantum anharmonic oscillator is defined by the Hamiltonian ${\cal H}= -\frac{ {\rm d^{2}}}{{\rm d}x^{2}} + V(x)$, where the potential is given by $V(x) = \sum_{i=1}^{m} c_{i} x^{2i}$ with $c_{m}>0$. Using the Sinc collocation method…
Using heuristic arguments alone, based on the properties of the wavefunctions, we obtain the energy eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenfunctions of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator. This approach is considerably simpler and is…
We calculate eigenvalues of one-dimensional quantum-systems by the exact numerical solution of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation, analogous to the scattering problem. To illustrate our method, we treat elementary problems: the harmonic and…
We introduce various optimization schemes for highly accurate calculation of the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of the one-dimensional anharmonic oscillators. We present several methods of analytically fixing the nonlinear variational…
We use a power-series expansion to calculate the eigenvalues of anharmonic oscillators bounded by two infinite walls. We show that for large finite values of the separation of the walls, the calculated eigenvalues are of the same high…
A powerful method for calculating the eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian operator consists of converting the energy eigenvalue equation into a matrix equation by means of an appropriate basis set of functions. The convergence of the method can be…
In this work, the energy eigenvalues are calculated for the quadratic ($\frac{g^2 x^2}{2}$), pure quartic ($\lambda x^4 $), and quartic anharmonic oscillators ($\frac{g^2 x^2}{2} + \lambda x^4 $) by applying variational method. For this,…
We give an algebraic derivation of the eigenvalues of energy of a quantum harmonic oscillator on the surface of constant curvature, i.e. on the sphere or on the hyperbolic plane. We use the method proposed by Daskaloyannis for fixing the…
Quantum--mechanical multiple--well oscillators exhibit curious complex eigenvalues that resemble resonances in models with continuum spectra. We discuss a method for the accurate calculation of their real and imaginary parts.
The present contribution concerns the computation of energy eigenvalues of a perturbed anharmonic coulombic potential with irregular singularities using a combination of the Sinc collocation method and the double exponential transformation.…
Exact solution of Schrodinger equation for the pseudoharmonic potential is obtained for an arbitrary angular momentum. The energy eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions are calculated by Nikiforov-Uvarov method. Wavefunctions are…
The study of the convergence of power series expansions of energy eigenvalues for anharmonic oscillators in quantum mechanics differs from general understanding, in the case of quasi-exactly solvable potentials. They provide examples of…
We obtain sufficiently accurate eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for the anharmonic oscillator with potential $V(x,y)=x^{2}y^{2}$ by means of three different methods. Our results strongly suggest that the spectrum of this oscillator is…
Matrix elements of potential energy are examined in detail. We consider a model problem - a particle in a central potential. The most popular forms of central potential are taken up, namely, square-well potential, Gaussian, Yukawa and…
We obtain tight upper and lower bounds to the eigenvalues of an anharmonic oscillator with a rational potential. We compare our bounds with results given by other approaches.
The inverted harmonic oscillator problem is investigated quantum mechanically. The exact wave function for the confined inverted oscillator is obtained and it is shown that the associated energy eigenvalues are discrete and it is given as a…
We propose an experiential formula for the calculation of the energy eigenvalues of a particle moving in a one-dimension finite-deep square well potential after some physical considerations. This formula shows a simple relation between the…
The generalized pseudospectral method is employed for the accurate calculation of eigenvalues, densities and expectation values for the spiked harmonic oscillators. This allows \emph{nonuniform} and \emph{optimal} spatial discretization of…
In a recent work we have proposed an original analytic expression for the partition function of the quartic oscillator. This partition function, which has a simple and compact form with {\it no adjustable parameters}, reproduces some key…