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Schrödinger Equation with Position-Dependent Mass: Staggered Mass Distributions J. J. Peña, J. Morales, J. García-Ravelo, L. Arcos-Díaz
changes its value in a subsequent interval. Specific examples Abstract—The Point canonical transformation method is applied of staggered mass distributions are proposed for solving the for solving the Schrödinger equation with position-dependent mass. Schrödinger equation with different quantum potentials, This class of problem has been solved for continuous mass namely an infinite square well potential and a harmonic distributions. In this work, a staggered mass distribution for the case oscillator are used to show the usefulness of the proposed of a free particle in an infinite square well potential has been proposed. The continuity conditions as well as normalization for the method. wave function are also considered. The proposal can be used for dealing with other kind of staggered mass distributions in the II. EXACTLY SOLVABLE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION WITH CORE Schrödinger equation with different quantum potentials. POSITION DEPENDENT MASS The one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with time- Keywords—Free particle, point canonical transformation method, independent potential and position-dependent mass used in the provided by ZENODO position-dependent mass, staggered mass distribution. literature [15], is expressed in the form brought to you by I. INTRODUCTION (1) OLVING the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with Sposition dependent mass has had applications in the description of physical systems such as semiconductors [1], is the energy spectra, and is the interaction superlattices [2], materials of non-uniform chemical potential. This equation can be written as
composition [3], heterostructures [4], and abrupt heterojunctions [5]. Recently, the generalized point canonical (2) transformation method [6] has been proposed to solve a Schrödinger-type equation, from an arbitrary second-order With the aim of finding solution to (1), it is convenient to differential equation whose solution is known [7]. This transform it into a problem of constant mass. To do that, the methodology has allowed the study of different potentials in point canonical transformation method is used, namely, if quantum mechanics [8] as well as other new potential [9] where is a constant mass, whereas associated with the former one. Different schemes of solution is a unitless function, the transformation [10] and generalized methods such as the supersymmetric theory [11], the Darboux transform [12], Hamiltonians with (3) energy-dependent potentials [13], Schrödinger equation with
effective mass [14] among others, have been also applied. In such that , leads to the transformation of the first part of this work the point canonical transformation the differential operator method [14] is briefly exposed. Then, the method is explained with an example where a continuous mass distribution is used. (4) In this case, a harmonic oscillator potential is proposed to link both, the position-dependent mass distribution with its corresponding constant-mass problem. After that, in Section from where
III, a step-type mass distribution is proposed. In this particular case, the mass is constant in some known interval, but it (5) International Science Index, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Vol:11, No:8, 2017 waset.org/Publication/10007521 J. J. Peña is with the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, CBI- and Azcapotzalco, Av. San Pablo 02200, CDMX, México (phone: 52- 5553189018, e-mail: [email protected]). (6) J. Morales is with the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, CBI- Azcapotzalco, Av. San Pablo 02200, CDMX, México (e-mail: [email protected]). thus (2) is written as J. García-Ravelo and L. Arcos-Díaz are with the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas Ed. 9, Zacatenco 07730, CDMX, México (e-mail: [email protected], 2 0 (7) [email protected]). This work was partially supported by Project Nos. UAM-A-CBI-2232004- 009 and COFAA-IPN Project No. SIP-20170810. where
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