Automatic computation of quantum-mechanical bound states and wavefunctions

2014/06/23 by Ledoux, Veerle, Van Daele, Marnix
#FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1406.5882

Abstract

We discuss the automatic solution of the multichannel Schrödinger equation. The proposed approach is based on the use of a CP method for which the step size is not restricted by the oscillations in the solution. Moreover, this CP method turns out to form a natural scheme for the integration of the Riccati differential equation which arises when introducing the (inverse) logarithmic derivative. A new Prüfer type mechanism which derives all the required information from the propagation of the inverse of the log-derivative, is introduced. It improves and refines the eigenvalue shooting process and implies that the user may specify the required eigenvalue by its index.

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