Numerical matrix method for quantum periodic potentials

Engineered quantum tunnelling in extended periodic potentials

Quantum tunnelling from a tilted, but otherwise periodic potential is studied. Our theoretical and experimental results show that, by controlling the system’s parameters, we can engineer the escape rate of a Bose-Einstein condensate to an exceptional degree. Possible applications of this atom-optics realization of the open Wannier-Stark system are discussed.

A Bloch Decomposition-Based Split-Step Pseudospectral Method for Quantum Dynamics with Periodic Potentials

We present a new numerical method for accurate computations of solutions to (linear) one-dimensional Schrödinger equations with periodic potentials. This is a prominent model in solid state physics where we also allow for perturbations by nonperiodic potentials describing external electric fields. Our approach is based on the classical Bloch decomposition method, which allows us to diagonalize ...

The Spectral Ewald method for singly periodic Coulomb potentials

J-matrix method and Bargmann potentials

By applying the J-matrix method [1] to neutral particles scattering we have discovered that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the nonlocal separable potential with the Laguerre form factors and a Bargmann potential. Thus this discrete approach to direct and inverse scattering problem can be considered as a tool of the S-matrix rational parametrization. As an application, the Bargmann...

Self-Isospectral Periodic Potentials and Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics

We discuss supersymmetric quantum mechanical models with periodic potentials. The important new feature is that it is possible for both isospectral potentials to support zero modes, in contrast to the standard nonperiodic case where either one or neither (but not both) of the isospectral pair has a zero mode. Thus it is possible to have supersymmetry unbroken and yet also have a vanishing Witte...