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Title: The harmonic oscillator in a space with a screw dislocation

Journal Article · · Annals of Physics
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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, CUICBAS, Universidad de Colima, Bernal Díaz del Castillo 340, Colima, Colima (Mexico)

Highlights: •Quantum-mechanical systems with screw dislocation are receiving considerable interest. •The harmonic oscillator with screw dislocation is not completely separable. •The screw dislocation removes the degeneracy. •The variational method is useful for obtaining eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. •The spectrum exhibits a rich structure of avoided crossings. -- Abstract: We obtain the eigenvalues of the harmonic oscillator in a space with a screw dislocation. By means of a suitable nonorthogonal basis set with variational parameters we obtain sufficiently accurate eigenvalues for an arbitrary range of values of the space-deformation parameter. The energies exhibit a rich structure of avoided crossings in terms of such model parameter.

OSTI ID:
22848284
Journal Information:
Annals of Physics, Vol. 388; Other Information: © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-4916
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English