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Quantum harmonic oscillators with nonlinear effective masses in the weak density approximation

Journal

PHYSICA SCRIPTA
Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/ac4a92

Keywords

quantum; harmonic; oscillators; nonlinear; effective

Funding

  1. Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [105-2628-M-007-003-MY4, 108-2115-M-606-001, 108-2923-M-007-001-MY3, 109-2112-M-007-019-MY3]
  2. Office of Naval Research Global, US Army Research Office (ARO)
  3. Center for Quantum Technology, Taiwan

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By studying quantum particles with probability density-dependent effective mass in harmonic oscillators, we have revealed continuous energy spectra and stable solutions, showing the influence of nonlinear effective mass on the oscillator system and discovering new solutions.
We study the eigen-energy and eigen-function of a quantum particle acquiring the probability density-dependent effective mass (DDEM) in harmonic oscillators. Instead of discrete eigen-energies, continuous energy spectra are revealed due to the introduction of a nonlinear effective mass. Analytically, we map this problem into an infinite discrete dynamical system and obtain the stationary solutions in the weak density approximation, along with the proof on the monotonicity in the perturbed eigen-energies. Numerical results not only give agreement to the asymptotic solutions stemmed from the expansion of Hermite-Gaussian functions, but also unveil a family of peakon-like solutions without linear counterparts. As nonlinear Schrodinger wave equation has served as an important model equation in various sub-fields in physics, our proposed generalized quantum harmonic oscillator opens an unexplored area for quantum particles with nonlinear effective masses.

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