Regularization of energy-dependent pointlike interactions in 1D quantum mechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10924v1
• Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 20:21:23 GMT
• Title: Regularization of energy-dependent pointlike interactions in 1D quantum mechanics
• Authors: Etienne Granet
• Abstract summary: We construct a family of hermitian potentials in 1D quantum mechanics that converge in the zero-range limit to a $delta$ interaction with an energy-dependent coupling. We show that although our Hamiltonian is hermitian for the standard inner product when the range of the potential is finite, it becomes hermitian for a different inner product in the zero-range limit.
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• Abstract: We construct a family of hermitian potentials in 1D quantum mechanics that converges in the zero-range limit to a $\delta$ interaction with an energy-dependent coupling. It falls out of the standard four-parameter family of pointlike interactions in 1D. Such classification was made by requiring the pointlike interaction to be hermitian. But we show that although our Hamiltonian is hermitian for the standard inner product when the range of the potential is finite, it becomes hermitian for a different inner product in the zero-range limit. This inner product attributes a finite probability (and not probability density) for the particle to be exactly located at the position of the potential. Such pointlike interactions can then be used to construct potentials with a finite support with an energy-dependent coupling.

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