Quantum-mechanical wave functions in singular potentials: linear and nonlinear states

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20282v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:15:31 GMT
• Title: Quantum-mechanical wave functions in singular potentials: linear and nonlinear states
• Abstract summary: It is known that the attractive singular inverse-square potential gives rise to the critical quantum collapse in the framework of the 3D linear Schroedinger equation.<n>This article summarizes theoretical results which demonstrate suppression of the collapse, caused by this singular potential.<n>The article puts forward perspectives for further studies of linear and nonlinear bound states existing under the action of the potentials.
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• Abstract: It is known that the attractive singular inverse-square potential gives rise to the critical quantum collapse in the framework of the three-dimensional (3D) linear Schroedinger equation. This article summarizes theoretical results which demonstrate suppression of the collapse, caused by this singular potential, and the creation of the otherwise missing ground state (GS) in a 3D gas of bosonic particles, carrying an electric dipole moment, which are pulled to the central electric charge, with repulsive contact interactions between the particles. In the mean-field approximation, the repulsive interactions are represented by the cubic term in the respective Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation. In addition to the GS, excited states with angular momentum are briefly considered too. Another topic considered in the article is 1D and 2D bound states in the linear Schroedinger and GP equations with the repulsive potential, which demonstrates a singularity at r --> infinity. A very recent result is that such a potential, growing faster than the negative harmonic-oscillator potential, produces a full spectrum of counter-intuitive normalizable (localized) bound states. The article puts forward perspectives for further studies of linear and nonlinear bound states existing under the action of the potentials with the singularity at r --> 0 or r --> infinity.

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