Analytical Solutions of One-Dimensional ($1\mathcal{D}$) Potentials for Spin-0 Particles via the Feshbach-Villars Formalism

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive analytical and numerical analysis of the one-dimensional Feshbach--Villars equation for spin-0 particles under various external potentials, offering new insights into relativistic bound states and spectrum classification.

Contribution

It introduces a unified approach to solving the FV equation for multiple potentials, including regularization techniques and spectrum analysis, advancing the understanding of relativistic scalar particles in one dimension.

Findings

Coulomb potential shows near-degenerate even-odd states.

Cornell potential produces finite bound states with confinement.

Power-exponential potential yields a relativistic spectrum without Schrödinger limit.

Abstract

We present a unified analytical and numerical study of the one-dimensional Feshbach--Villars (FV) equation for spin-0 particles in the presence of several representative external potentials. Starting from the FV formulation of the Klein--Gordon equation, we derive the corresponding one-dimensional master equation and analyse its solutions for Coulomb, power-exponential, Cornell, P\"oschl--Teller, and Woods--Saxon interactions. For the singular Coulomb and Cornell cases, a Loudon-type cutoff regularisation is implemented on the full line, allowing a mathematically controlled treatment of the origin and an explicit classification of the states by parity. The Coulomb problem exhibits the expected near-degenerate even--odd structure in the cutoff limit, while the Cornell potential combines short-distance Coulomb behaviour with long-distance confinement and produces a finite set of bound states for fixed parameters. The power-exponential potential with $p=1$ is reduced to a Whittaker-type equation and yields an intrinsically relativistic spectrum with no standard Schr\"odinger bound-state limit in the parameter regime considered. For the smooth short-range P\"oschl--Teller and Woods-Saxon potentials, the FV formalism reveals, respectively, the effects of definite parity and spatial asymmetry on the spectrum, wave functions, and particle--antiparticle mixing. In all cases, we reconstruct the full FV spinor, analyse the associated charge density, and compare the relativistic behaviour with the corresponding non-relativistic expectations whenever such a limit exists. The results provide a coherent set of analytical and numerical benchmarks for relativistic scalar bound states in one dimension.