More on a SUSYQM approach to the harmonic oscillator with nonzero minimal uncertainties in position and/or momentum
Creators
- 1. Physique Nucleaire Theorique et Physique Mathematique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Campus de la Plaine CP229, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)
- 2. Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Chair of Theoretical Physics, 12, Drahomanov Street, Lviv UA-79005 (Ukraine)
Description
We continue our previous application of supersymmetric quantum mechanical methods to eigenvalue problems in the context of some deformed canonical commutation relations leading to nonzero minimal uncertainties in position and/or momentum. Here we determine for the first time the spectrum and the eigenvectors of a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator in the presence of a uniform electric field in terms of the deforming parameters α, β. We establish that whenever there is a nonzero minimal uncertainty in momentum, i.e., for α ≠ 0, the correction to the harmonic oscillator eigenvalues due to the electric field is level dependent. In the opposite case, i.e., for α = 0, we recover the conventional quantum mechanical picture of an overall energy-spectrum shift even when there is a nonzero minimal uncertainty in position, i.e., for β ≠ 0. Then we consider the problem of a D-dimensional harmonic oscillator in the case of isotropic nonzero minimal uncertainties in the position coordinates, depending on two parameters β, β'. We extend our methods to deal with the corresponding radial equation in the momentum representation and rederive in a simple way both the spectrum and the momentum radial wavefunctions previously found by solving the differential equation. This opens the way to solving new D-dimensional problems
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/37/10095/a4_43_006.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General (ISSN 1361-6447) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/37/10095/a4_43_006.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0305-4470/37/43/006;
- PII
- S0305-4470(04)73884-6;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
- Journal Volume
- 37
- Journal Issue
- 43
- Journal Page Range
- p. 10095-10113
- ISSN
- 0305-4470
- CODEN
- JPHAC5
Conference
- Title
- International conference on progress in supersymmetric quantum mechanics
- Acronym
- PSQM'03
- Dates
- 15-19 Jul 2003
- Place
- Valladolid (Spain)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36029333
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMMUTATION RELATIONS; COORDINATES; CORRECTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES; EIGENVECTORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY SPECTRA; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERSYMMETRY; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; MECHANICS; SPECTRA; SYMMETRY