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The coordinate asymptotics of the wave function for the problem of scattering of three particles with Coulomb interaction is constructed. Representation of hyperspherical functions is used to reduce the Schr\"odinger equation to a system of…
A new algorithm to calculate Coulomb wave functions with all of its arguments complex is proposed. For that purpose, standard methods such as continued fractions and power/asymptotic series are combined with direct integrations of the…
We derive asymptotic expansions of the large zeros of the Coulomb wave functions and for those of their derivatives. The new expansions have the same form as the McMahon expansions of the zeros of the Bessel functions and reduce to them…
Partial wave expansion of the Coulomb-distorted plane wave is determined and studied. Dominant and sub-dominant asymptotic expansion terms are given and leading order three-dimensional asymptotic form is derived. The generalized…
An eikonal expansion is developed in order to provide systematic corrections to the eikonal approximation through order 1/k^2, where k is the wave number. The expansion is applied to wave functions for the Klein-Gordon equation and for the…
The WKB approximation plays an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics and various important results have been obtained from it. In this paper, we introduce another method, {\it the so-called uniform asymptotic…
By means of numerical solutions of the quantum Hamilton Jacobi equation, a general WKB-like representation for one-dimensional wave functions is obtained. This representation is unique in the classically forbidden regions, while in the…
Uniform asymptotic approximations are obtained for the prolate spheroidal wave functions, in the high-frequency case. The results are obtained by an application of certain existing asymptotic solutions of differential equations, and involve…
Taking into account results of WKB-approximation, we derive exact quantum energies and wave functions of even and odd states in the one-dimensional Coulomb potential
We use the theory of functions of noncommuting operators (noncommutative analysis) to solve an asymptotic problem for a partial differential equation and show how, starting from general constructions and operator formulas that seem to be…
Complex Gaussian basis sets are optimized to accurately represent continuum radial wavefunctions over the whole space. First, attention is put on the technical ability of the optimization method to get more flexible series of Gaussian…
A simple analytical expression, which closely approximates the Coulomb potential between two uniformly charged spheres, is presented. This expression can be used in the optical potential semiclassical analyses which require that the…
The asymptotic behavior of the molecular continuum wave function has been analyzed within a model of non-overlapping atomic potentials. It is been shown that the representation of the wave function far from a molecule as a plane wave and…
We describe the calculation of Coulomb gauge wave functions for light quark systems, and their use as interpolating fields for excited state spectroscopy.
In this paper we study the eigenvalues of the angular spheroidal wave equation and its generalization, the Coulomb spheroidal wave equation. An associated differential system and a formula for the connection coefficients between the various…
We show that in quantum dots the physical quantities probed by local tunneling spectroscopies, namely the quasi-particle wavefunctions of interacting electrons, can considerably deviate from their single-particle counterparts as an effect…
Several asymptotic expansions and formulas for cubic exponential sums are derived. The expansions are most useful when the cubic coefficient is in a restricted range. This generalizes previous results in the quadratic case and helps to…
Modern density functional approximations achieve moderate accuracy at low computational cost for many electronic structure calculations. Some background is given relating the gradient expansion of density functional theory to the WKB…
Some difficulties, both numerical and conceptual, of the method to compute one dimensional wave functions by numerically integrating the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation, presented in the paper mentioned in the title, are analyzed. The…
Quantum mechanical scalar particle with polarizability is considered in the presence of the Coulomb field. Separation of variables is performed with the use of Wigner $D$-functions, the radial system of 15 equations is reduced to a single…