Employing an operator form of the Rodrigues formula to calculate wavefunctions without differential equations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09327v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 20:21:17 GMT
• Title: Employing an operator form of the Rodrigues formula to calculate wavefunctions without differential equations
• Authors: Joseph R. Noonan, Maaz ur Rehman Shah, Luogen Xu, and James. K. Freericks
• Abstract summary: The factorization method of Schrodinger shows us how to determine the energy eigenstates without needing to determine the wavefunctions in position or momentum space. This approach can be used in either undergraduate or graduate classes in quantum mechanics.
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• Abstract: The factorization method of Schrodinger shows us how to determine the energy eigenstates without needing to determine the wavefunctions in position or momentum space. A strategy to convert the energy eigenstates to wavefunctions is well known for the one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator by employing the Rodrigues formula for the Hermite polynomials in position or momentum space. In this work, we illustrate how to generalize this approach in a representation-independent fashion to find the wavefunctions of other problems in quantum mechanics that can be solved by the factorization method. We examine three problems in detail: (i) the one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator; (ii) the three-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator; and (iii) the three-dimensional Coulomb problem. This approach can be used in either undergraduate or graduate classes in quantum mechanics.

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