Alternating Wentzel-Krammers-Brillouin Approximation for the Schr\"odinger Equation: A Rediscovering of the Bremmers Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00935v2
• Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 14:50:01 GMT
• Title: Alternating Wentzel-Krammers-Brillouin Approximation for the Schr\"odinger Equation: A Rediscovering of the Bremmers Series
• Authors: Yu-An Tsai and Sheng D. Chao
• Abstract summary: We propose an extension of the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation for solving the Schr"odinger equation. It is shown that an alternating perturbation method can be used to decouple this set of equations, yielding the well known Bremmer series.
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• Abstract: We propose an extension of the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation for solving the Schr\"odinger equation. A set of coupled differential equations has been obtained by considering an ansatz of wave function with two auxiliary conditions on gauging the first and the second derivatives of the wave function, respectivey. It is shown that an alternating perturbation method can be used to decouple this set of equations, yielding the well known Bremmer series. We derive an analytical scheme to approximate the wave function which consists of the usual WKB approximation as the zeroth order solution with extra correction terms up to the first order perturbation. Therefore, we call this alternative methodology the alternating WKB (a-WKB) approximation. We apply the a-WKB method to solve the eigenvalue problem of a harmonic oscillator and the scattering problem of a repulsive inverse-square (centrifugal) potential and demonstrate its supremacy over the usual WKB approximation.

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