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Quantum mechanics of the isotropic three-dimensional anharmonic oscillator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

I. J. Zucker
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Battersea College of Technology, London, S.W. 11

Abstract

A method of determining numerically to any degree of accuracy the eigen-values of Hamiltonians in the form of power series is presented. The case of a spherically symmetric potential function of the form V = ar2 + br4 + cr6 is treated in detail.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1964

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