POSITRON
Vol 11, No 1 (2021): Vol. 11 No. 1 Edition

Quantum Anharmonic Oscillators: A Truncated Matrix Approach

Redi Kristian Pingak (Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Universitas Nusa Cendana)
Albert Zicko Johannes (Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Universitas Nusa Cendana)
Minsyahril Bukit (Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Universitas Nusa Cendana)
Zakarias Seba Ngara (Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Universitas Nusa Cendana)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Oct 2021

Abstract

This study aims at implementing a truncated matrix approach based on harmonic oscillator eigenfunctions to calculate energy eigenvalues of anharmonic oscillators containing quadratic, quartic, sextic, octic, and decic anharmonicities. The accuracy of the matrix method is also tested. Using this method, the wave functions of the anharmonic oscillators were written as a linear combination of some finite number of harmonic oscillator basis states. Results showed that calculation with 100 basis states generated accurate energies of oscillators with relatively small coupling constants, with computation time less than 1 minute. Including more basis states could result in more correct digits. For instance, using 300 harmonic oscillator basis states in a simple Mathematica code in about 8 minutes, highly accurate energies of the oscillators were obtained for relatively small coupling constants, with up to 15 correct digits. Reasonable accuracy was also found for much larger coupling constants with at least three correct digits for some low lying energies of the oscillators reported in this study. Some of our results contained more correct digits than other results reported in the literature.

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Journal Info

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jpositron

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Subject

Energy Physics

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POSITRON: Berkala Ilmiah Fisika (POSITRON) is a peer-reviewed open accessed Indonesian journal that publishes scientific research papers in the field of physics and its application. The journal covers a wide range of topics in physics, including conceptual studies, theoretical and experimental ...