ISSN:
0020-7608
Keywords:
Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling
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Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
A procedure to obtain the operational solutions of second order differential equations related with Sturm-Liouville problems is presented. The method is based on the commutation relation between the ladder operators themselves, with a certain structure, and the position and momentum operators. Even though the creation and annihilation operators, derived by the proposed approach, factorize as expected the corresponding differential equation, the method does not use, as original premise factoring, the differential relation under consideration. That is, the displayed procedure is quite different, simple, and direct when compared with other procedures such as the factorization method of Infeld and Hull. To illustrate the above, the usefulness of the proposed procedure is shown by finding the ladder operators associated to the quantum numbers n and I for various potential wave functions. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qua.560440816
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