TITLE:
Breakdown of a Commonly Practiced Technique in Quantum Mechanics
AUTHORS:
Pirooz Mohazzabi, William D. Parker, Peter Kveton
KEYWORDS:
Dynamic, Shift, Oscillator, Quantum, Schrödinger, Solution
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.12 No.5,
May
30,
2024
ABSTRACT: The dynamically shifted oscillator is investigated quantum mechanically, both analytically and numerically. It is shown that the commonly used method of solving the Schrödinger equation using power series results in incorrect eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.