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TMF, 2016 Volume 188, Number 1, Pages 20–35 (Mi tmf9023)

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Schrödinger potentials solvable in terms of the confluent Heun functions

A. M. Ishkhanyanabc

a Institute for Physical Research,, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Ashtarak, Armenia
b Armenian State Pedagogical University, Yerevan, Armenia
c Institute of Physics and Technology, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia

Abstract: We show that if the potential is proportional to an energy-independent continuous parameter, then there exist 15 choices for the coordinate transformation that provide energy-independent potentials whose shape is independent of that parameter and for which the one-dimensional stationary Schrödinger equation is solvable in terms of the confluent Heun functions. All these potentials are also energy-independent and are determined by seven parameters. Because the confluent Heun equation is symmetric under transposition of its regular singularities, only nine of these potentials are independent. Five of the independent potentials are different generalizations of either a hypergeometric or a confluent hypergeometric classical potential, one potential as special cases includes potentials of two hypergeometric types (the Morse confluent hypergeometric and the Eckart hypergeometric potentials), and the remaining three potentials include five-parameter conditionally integrable confluent hypergeometric potentials. Not one of the confluent Heun potentials, generally speaking, can be transformed into any other by a parameter choice.

Keywords: stationary Schrödinger equation, integrable potential, confluent Heun equation.

PACS: 03.65.-w, 03.65.Ge, 02.30.Ik, 02.30.Gp, 02.90.+p

Received: 12.08.2015
Revised: 23.10.2015

DOI: 10.4213/tmf9023


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2016, 188:1, 980–993

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