Sunday, 10 January 2016

quantum mechanics - Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization from the WKB approximation


How can one prove the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization formula


$$ \oint p~dq ~=~2\pi n \hbar $$


from the WKB ansatz solution $$\Psi(x)~=~e^{iS(x)/ \hbar}$$ for the Schroedinger equation?


With $S$ the action of the particle defined by Hamilton-Jacobi equation



$$ \frac{\partial S}{\partial t}+ \frac{(\nabla S)^{2} }{2m}+V(x)~=~0 .$$




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