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The paper is devoted to the study of circularly coiled optical slab waveguides, which is also applicable to acoustical waveguides. We use a change of variables and the classical Frobenius method to compute Bessel functions of complex order…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jaime Mora-Paz , Leszek Demkowicz , Christina G. Taylor , Jacob Grosek , Stefan Henneking

A class of orthogonal polynomials associated with Coulomb wave functions is introduced. These polynomials play a role analogous to that the Lommel polynomials do in the theory of Bessel functions. The measure of orthogonality for this new…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-04-01 Frantisek Stampach , Pavel Stovicek

We consider the calculation of the band structure of frequency dependent photonic crystals. The associated eigenvalue problem is nonlinear and it is challenging to develop effective convergent numerical methods. In this paper, the band…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Wenqiang Xiao , Bo Gong , Jiguang Sun , Zhimin Zhang

We introduce variational methods for finding approximate eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of quantum Hamiltonians by constructing a set of orthogonal wave functions which approximately solve the eigenvalue equation.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Farrokh Atai , Jens Hoppe , Mariusz Hynek , Edwin Langmann

We introduce an extended Kepler-Coulomb quantum model in spherical coordinates. The Schr\"{o}dinger equation of this Hamiltonian is solved in these coordinates and it is shown that the wave functions of the system can be expressed in terms…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Md Fazlul Hoque , Ian Marquette , Sarah Post , Yao-Zhong Zhang

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-04 M. Essaouini , B. Abouzaid , P. Gaudreau , H. Safouhi

Solving for the bound state eigenvalues of the Schr\"odinger equation is a tedious iterative process when the conventional shooting or matching method is used. In this work, we bypass the eigenvalue's dependence on the eigenfunction by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Siu A. Chin , John Massey

In the present paper, we introduce the multidimensional Clifford prolate spheroidal wave functions (CPSWFs) defined on the unit ball as eigenfunctions of a Clifford differential operator and provide a Galerkin method for their computation…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Hamed Baghal Ghaffari , Jeffrey A. Hogan , Joseph D. Lakey

In this work, we propose a method combining the Sinc collocation method with the double exponential transformation for computing the eigenvalues of the anharmonic Coulombic potential. We introduce a scaling factor that improves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Tyler Cassidy , Philippe Gaudreau , Hassan Safouhi

The angular wave functions for a hydrogen atom are well known to be spherical harmonics, and are obtained as the solutions of a partial differential equation. However, the differential operator is given by the Casimir operator of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Naohisa Ogawa

Following the semiclassical formalism of Strutinsky et al., we have obtained the complete eigenvalue spectrum for a particle enclosed in an infinitely high spheroidal cavity. Our spheroidal trace formula also reproduces the results of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 Sham S. Malik , A. K. Jain , S. R. Jain

We consider the Schr\"odinger equation for hydrogen-like atom with Coulomb potential and non-point ball nucleus. The eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the operator given by an arbitrary rotation-invariant boundary value problem on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 V. P. Burskii , A. A. Zaretskaya

We present a fast algorithm to calculate Coulomb/exchange integrals of prolate spheroidal electronic orbitals, which are the exact solutions of the single-electron, two-center Schr\"odinger equation for diatomic molecules. Our approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Christian B. Mendl

Prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) play an important role in various areas, from physics (e.g. wave phenomena, fluid dynamics) to engineering (e.g. signal processing, filter design). Even though the significance of PSWFs was realized…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Andrei Osipov

A new set of vector solutions to Maxwell's equations based on solutions to the wave equation in spheroidal coordinates allows laser beams to be described beyond the paraxial approximation. Using these solutions allows us to calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Martin Zeppenfeld , Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Analytical solutions of the Schrodinger equation are obtained for some diatomic molecular potentials with any angular momentum. The energy eigenvalues and wave functions are calculated exactly. The asymptotic form of the equation is also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 Huseyin Akcay , Ramazan Sever

In this paper we report on a package, written in the Mathematica computer algebra system, which has been developed to compute the spheroidal wave functions of Meixner [J. Meixner and R.W. Schaefke, Mathieusche Funktionen und…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. E. Falloon , P. C. Abbott , J. B. Wang

New non-perturbative results on the eigenvalues of the spheroidal equation are presented. The results, found using an all orders WKB analysis, include a perturbative/non-perturbative (P/NP) relation as well as the first exponential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Max Meynig

Wave/Schr\"{o}dinger equations with potentials naturally originates from both the quantum physics and the study of nonlinear equations. The distractive Coulomb potential is a quantum mechanical description of distractive Coulomb force…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Liang Li , Shenghao Luo , Ruipeng Shen

Alternative expressions for calculating the oblate spheroidal radial functions of both kinds R1ml and R2ml are shown to provide accurate values over very large parameter ranges using 64 bit arithmetic, even where the traditional expressions…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Arnie L. Van Buren