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The exactness of the semiclassical method for three-dimensional problems in quantum mechanics is analyzed. The wave equation appropriate in the quasiclassical region is derived. It is shown that application of the standard leading-order WKB…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 M. N. Sergeenko

A simple methodology is suggested for the efficient calculation of certain central potentials having singularities. The generalized pseudospectral method used in this work facilitates {\em nonuniform} and optimal spatial discretization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Amlan K. Roy

We consider the solution of the quantum Coulomb problem in one dimension with the most general connection condition at the origin. The divergence of the derivative of the wave function at the origin invalidates the standard current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Axel Pérez-Obiol , Taksu Cheon

We consider one particle confined to a deformed one-dimensional wire. The quantum mechanical equivalent of the classical problem is not uniquely defined. We describe several possible hamiltonians and corresponding solutions for a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 J. K. Pedersen , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

In the present work the conditions appearing in the WKB approximation formalism of quantum mechanics are analyzed. It is shown that, in general, a careful definition of an approximation method requires the introduction of two length…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luis F. Barragan-Gil , Abel Camacho

We leverage the power of neural quantum states to describe the ground state wave function of solid and liquid atomic hydrogen, including both electronic and protonic degrees of freedom. For static protons, the resulting Born-Oppenheimer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-27 David Linteau , Saverio Moroni , Giuseppe Carleo , Markus Holzmann

Based on classical electrodynamics, it is argued that the Coulomb potential (which is strictly valid for two point charges at rest), commonly used in the study of energy levels of hydrogen atom is not the correct one, because the electron…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-11 Harihar Behera

We prove a priori bounds for all derivatives of non-relativistic Coulombic eigenfunctions, involving negative powers of the distance to the singularities of the many-body potential. We use these to derive bounds for all derivatives of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Søren Fournais , Thomas Østergaard Sørensen

We analyze quantitatively the accuracy of eigenfunction and eigenvalue calculations in the frame work of WKB and instanton semiclassical methods. We show that to estimate the accuracy it is enough to compare two linearly independent (with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Benderskii , E. V. Vetoshkin , E. I. Kats

The numerical version of the Hamilton-Jacobi quantization method, recently proposed, is applied to the one dimensional quartic oscillator. A suitable quantization condition is formulated and various energy levels and wave functions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Mario Fusco Girard

Using the method of the "exact discretization" of the Schr\"odinger equation, we propose a particular discretized version of the N=2 Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics. After defining the corresponding shape invariance condition, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Jonas Sonnenschein , Mirian Tsulaia

We report benchmark results for one-dimensional (1D) atomic and molecular systems interacting via the Coulomb operator $|x|^{-1}$. Using various wavefunction-type approaches, such as Hartree-Fock theory, second- and third-order…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Pierre-François Loos , Caleb J. Ball , Peter M. W. Gill

By using the WKB quantization we deduce an analytical formula for the energy splitting in a double--well potential which is the usual Landau formula with additional quantum corrections. Then we analyze the accuracy of our formula for the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marko Robnik , Luca Salasnich , Marko Vranicar

We study the accuracy of several alternative semiclassical methods by computing analytically the energy levels for many large classes of exactly solvable shape invariant potentials. For these potentials, the ground state energies computed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 Marina Hruska , Wai-Yee Keung , Uday Sukhatme

The methodology based on the association of the Variational Method with Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics is used to evaluate the energy states of the confined hydrogen atom.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Elso Drigo Filho , Regina Maria Ricotta

We study quasi-stationary states in quantum mechanics using the exact Wentzel--Kramers--Brillouin (WKB) analysis as a nonperturbative framework. Whereas previous works focused mainly on stable systems, we explore unstable states such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Okuto Morikawa , Shoya Ogawa

The electron interaction energy of two interacting electrons in a circular quantum dot (with hard wall confinement) is investigated in the framework of the semi-classical Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation. The two electrons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anjana Sinha , Y. P. Varshni

We analyse the accuracy of the approximate WKB quantization for the case of general one-dimensional quartic potential. In particular, we are interested in the validity of semiclassically predicted energy eigenvalues when approaching the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marko Vranicar , Marko Robnik

The hydrogen atom is a system amenable to an exact treatment within Schroedinger's formulation of quantum mechanics according to coordinates in four systems -- spherical polar, paraboloidal, ellipsoidal and spheroconical coordinates; the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-07-20 J. F. Ogilvie

In this paper we consider the one dimensional quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) system, with a genuine hydrodynamic approach. The global existence of weak solutions with large data has been obtained in [2, 3], in several space dimensions, by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Hao Zheng