A Quantum Quasi-Harmonic Nonlinear Oscillator with an Isotonic Term

TL;DR

This paper investigates a nonlinear quantum oscillator with an isotonic term, providing exact solutions for wave functions and energies, and explores how nonlinearity and the isotonic potential influence the system's properties.

Contribution

It introduces a quantum nonlinear oscillator with an isotonic term and derives exact solutions for its wave functions and energy spectra, considering position-dependent mass and non-polynomial potentials.

Findings

Exact bound state energies obtained for both positive and negative 

Wave functions explicitly derived for the quantum system

The system reduces to the standard isotonic oscillator when =0

Abstract

The properties of a nonlinear oscillator with an additional term $k_g/x^2$, characterizing the isotonic oscillator, are studied. The nonlinearity affects to both the kinetic term and the potential and combines two nonlinearities associated to two parameters, $\kappa$ and $k_g$, in such a way that for $\kappa=0$ all the characteristics of of the standard isotonic system are recovered. The first part is devoted to the classical system and the second part to the quantum system. This is a problem of quantization of a system with position-dependent mass of the form $m(x)=1/(1 - {\kappa} x^2)$, with a $\kappa$-dependent non-polynomial rational potential and with an additional isotonic term. The Schr\"odinger equation is exactly solved and the $(\kappa,k_g)$-dependent wave functions and bound state energies are explicitly obtained for both $\kappa<0$ and $\kappa>0$.