A general scheme for the effective-mass Schrodinger equation and the generation of the associated potentials
arXiv:quant-ph/0405193 · doi:10.1142/S0217732304016123
Abstract
A systematic procedure to study one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with a position-dependent effective mass (PDEM) in the kinetic energy operator is explored. The conventional free-particle problem reveals a new and interesting situation in that, in the presence of a mass background, formation of bound states is signalled. We also discuss coordinate-transformed, constant-mass Schrödinger equation, its matching with the PDEM form and the consequent decoupling of the ambiguity parameters. This provides a unified approach to many exact results known in the literature, as well as to a lot of new ones.
16 pages + 1 figure; minor changes + new "free-particle" problem; version published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A