Question 3.9: (a) Cite a Hamiltonian from Chapter 2 (other than the harmon...

(a) Cite a Hamiltonian from Chapter 2 (other than the harmonic oscillator) that has only a discrete spectrum.

(b) Cite a Hamiltonian from Chapter 2 (other than the free particle) that has only a continuous spectrum.

(c) Cite a Hamiltonian from Chapter 2 (other than the finite square well) that has both a discrete and a continuous part to its spectrum.

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(a) Infinite square well (Eq. 2.22).

V(x)= \begin{cases}0, & 0 \leq x \leq a \\ \infty, & \text { otherwise }\end{cases}   (2.22).

(b) Delta-function barrier (Fig. 2.15), or the finite rectangular barrier (Prob. 2.33).

(c) Delta-function well (Eq. 2.114), or the finite square well (Eq. 2.148) or the \text { sech }^{2} potential (Prob. 2.52).

\delta(x) \equiv\left\{\begin{array}{ll} 0, & \text { if } x \neq 0 \\ \infty, & \text { if } x=0 \end{array}\right\}, \text { with } \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \delta(x) d x=1       (2.114).

V(x)= \begin{cases}-V_{0}, & -a \leq x \leq a \\ 0, & |x|>a\end{cases}     (2.148).

 

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