Numerical instability in Rayleigh-Schrodinger quantum mechanics

Citation
Wh. Hai et al., Numerical instability in Rayleigh-Schrodinger quantum mechanics, J PHYS A, 34(10), 2001, pp. L79-L87
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL
ISSN journal
03054470 → ACNP
Volume
34
Issue
10
Year of publication
2001
Pages
L79 - L87
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4470(20010316)34:10<L79:NIIRQM>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The most physically interesting systems are not exactly solvable in quantum mechanics. For one-dimensional bound systems without exact solutions, we a nalytically and numerically find that the Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbed se ries sensitively depends on an unsolvable integration, which leads to numer ical instability in quantum mechanics. By using an exact formal solution of the non-homogeneous Schrodinger equation, we demonstrate the existence of analytically bound states and propose a simple scheme to truncate infinity so that the instability difficulty is avoided.