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Charged particle in an electrostatic field PHY 741 Quantum Mechanics 12-12:50 PM MWF Olin 103 Plan for Lecture 10: Review Chapters #5 & 7 in Shankar; Eigenstates of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation Charged particle in an electrostatic field Brief introduction to numerical methods in the context of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation. 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

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Energy eigenstates of the Schrödinger equation for one-dimensional systems V(x) E Energy x a 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

One dimensional Schrödinger equation for charged particle in an electrostatic field – continued: V(x) E Energy x a 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Digression – library of solutions to differential equations http://dlmf.nist.gov/ 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

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Bi(z) Ai(z) 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

normalization constant 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Some properties of Airy functions – Integral form: 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Summary of results 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Introduction to numerical methods of solving the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation ! ! ! 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Discretize x into N segments s, with s=a/N. Introduction to numerical methods of solving the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation -- continued x x3 x4 x0=0 xN-1 xN=a s Discretize x into N segments s, with s=a/N. 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Introduction to numerical methods of solving the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation -- continued 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

In this way, our numerical solution is cast in terms of an eigenvalue problem where the N-1 unknown eigenvector components are yn (xi) 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Example for N=7: n l l/s2 Ev 1 0.1980622645 9.7050509605 9.869604401 2 0.7530203960 36.897999404 39.47841760 3 1.554958132 76.192948468 88.82643960 4 2.445041868 119.80705153 157.9136704 5 3.246979605 159.10200064 246.7401100 6 3.801937736 186.29494906 355.3057584 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

Convergence of results with respect to N Numerical results from second-order approximation: N=4 N=8 Exact n=1 9.54915028 9.7697954 9.869604404 n=2 34.54915031 37.9008002 39.47841762 Numerical results from Numerov approximation: N=4 Exact n=1 9.863097625 9.869604404 n=2 39.04581620 39.47841762 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10

More accurate algorithm – Numerov scheme Recall the Taylor’s expansion ! ! ! Recall that: 9/18/2017 PHY 741 Fall 2017 -- Lecture 10