Friday, 29 November 2019

quantum mechanics - Plotting psi for finite square well potential


Lets say we have a finite square potential well like below: finite well


This well has a ψ which we can combine with ψI, ψII and ψIII. I have been playing around and got expressions for them, but they are not the same for ODD and EVEN solutions but lets do this only for ODD ones.





ODD solutions:


ψI=AeKx        ψII=AeKd2sin(Ld2)sin(Lx)        ψIII=AeKx


When i applied boundary conditions to these equations i got transcendental equation which is:


LK=tan(Ld2)L2mW2K2m(WpW)2transcendental eq.1Wp/W1=tan(2mWd2)transcendental eq. - used to graph


Transcendental equation can be solved graphically by separately plotting LHS and RHS and checking where crosssections are. x coordinates of crossections represent possible energies W in finite potential well.


So i can theoreticaly get values for possible energies W and when i get these i can calculate L and K. But i am still missing constant A.




ORIGINAL QUESTION:


I would like to plot ψI, ψII and ψIII but my constant A is still missing. How can i plot these functions so the normalisation will be applied?





EDIT:


After all of your suggestions i decided to work on a speciffic case of an electron with mass me which i put in a finite well. So the constants i know are:


d=0.5nmme=9.1091031kgWp=25eV=1.0551034Js well known constant1eV=1.6021019J need this to convert from eV to J


I first used constants above to again draw a graph of transcendental equation and i found 2 possible energies W (i think those aren't quite accurate but should do). This looks like in any QM book (thanks to @Chris White):


enter image description here


Lets chose only one of the possible energies and try to plot ψI, ψII and ψIII. I choose energy which is equal to 0.17Wp and calculate constants K and L:


K=2.33258881010L=1.55739941010


Now when the picture above looks like in a book i will try to use constants K, L and A=1 (like @Chris White sugested) to plot ψI, ψII and ψIII. Even now the boundary conditions at d2 and d2 are not met:


enter image description here


EXTENDED QUESTION:



It looks like boundary conditions are not met. I did calculate my constants quite accurately, but i really can't read the energies (which are graphicall solutions to the first graph) very accurately. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to meet the boundary conditions?


Here is the GNUPLOT script used to draw 2nd graph:


set terminal epslatex color colortext size 9cm,5cm
set size 1.5,1.0
set output "potencialna_jama_6.tex"

set style line 1 linetype 1 linewidth 3 linecolor rgb "#FF0055"
set style line 2 linetype 2 linewidth 1 linecolor rgb "#FF0055"
set style line 3 linetype 1 linewidth 3 linecolor rgb "#2C397D"
set style line 4 linetype 2 linewidth 1 linecolor rgb "#2C397D"

set style line 5 linetype 1 linewidth 3 linecolor rgb "#793715"
set style line 6 linetype 2 linewidth 1 linecolor rgb "#793715"
set style line 7 linetype 1 linewidth 3 linecolor rgb "#b1b1b1"
set style line 8 linetype 3 linewidth 1 linecolor rgb "#b1b1b1"

set grid

set samples 7000

set key at graph .70, 0.4

set key samplen 2
set key spacing 0.8

m = 9.9109*10**(-31)
d = 0.5*10**(-9)
U = 25 * 1.602*10**(-19)
h = 1.055*10**(-34)

K = 2.3325888*10**10
L = 1.5573994*10**10

A = 1

f(x) = A*exp(K*x)
g(x) = -( A*exp(-L*(d/2)) )/( sin(L*(d/2)) )*sin(L*x)
h(x) = -A*exp(-K*x)

set xrange [-d:d]
set yrange [-8*10**(-2):8*10**(-2)]

set xtics ("$0$" 0, "$\\frac{d}{2}$" (d/2), "$-\\frac{d}{2}$" -(d/2))

set ytics ("$0$" 0)

set xlabel "$x$"

plot [-1.5*d:1.5*d] f(x) ls 1 title "$\\psi_{I}$", g(x) ls 3 title "$\\psi_{II}$", h(x) ls 5 title "$\\psi_{III}$"

Answer



Wavefunctions are found by solving the time-independent Schrödinger equation, which is simply an eigenvalue problem for a well-behaved operator: ˆHψ=Eψ. As such, we expect the solutions to be determined only up to scaling. Clearly if ψn is a solution with eigenvalue En, then ˆH(Aψn)=AˆHψn=AEnψn=En(Aψn) for any constant A, so ψ can always be rescaled. In this sense, there is no physical meaning associated with A.


To actually choose a value, for instance for plotting, you need some sort of normalization scheme. For square-integrable functions, we often enforce ψψ=1 in order to bring the wavefunction more in line with the traditional definition of probability (which says the sum of probabilities is 1, also an arbitrary constant).


In your case, ψ(x)={ψI(x),x<d2ψII(x),|x|<d2ψIII(x),x>d2. Thus choose A such that ψ(x)ψ(x) dxd/2ψI(x)ψI(x) dx+d/2d/2ψII(x)ψII(x) dx+d/2ψIII(x)ψIII(x) dx is unity.


If you happen to be in the regime E>Wp, then K will be imaginary, ψI and ψIII will be oscillatory rather than decaying, and the first and third of those integrals will not converge. You could pick an A that conforms to some sort of "normalizing to a delta function," but there are many different variations on this, especially for a split-up domain like this. In that case I would recommend picking an A, if you really have to do it, based on some other criterion, such as max or something.



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