L\'evy flights confinement in a parabolic potential and fractional quantum oscillator

TL;DR

This paper investigates the spectral properties of a fractional quantum oscillator confined in a parabolic potential, using variational and numerical methods to approximate eigenvalues and eigenfunctions relevant to various physical systems.

Contribution

It introduces a fractional generalization of the quantum harmonic oscillator and provides approximate analytical solutions validated by numerical methods.

Findings

Derived analytical expressions for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.

Validated approximations with numerical solutions.

Applicable to physical systems like multiferroics and quantum excitons.

Abstract

We study L\'evy flights confined in a parabolic potential. This has to do with a fractional generalization of ordinary quantum-mechanical oscillator problem. To solve the spectral problem for the fractional quantum oscillator, we pass to the momentum space, where we apply the variational method. This permits to obtain approximate analytical expressions for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions with very good accuracy. Latter fact has been checked by numerical solution of the problem. We point to the realistic physical systems ranging from multiferroics and oxide heterostructures to quantum chaotic excitons, where obtained results can be used.