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| author | Moore, Christopher Marsiglio, Frank |
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| contents | The celebrated Kronig-Penney model traditionally has been formulated with square well potentials representing atomic centres. Here, we use a slightly more realistic potential, the truncated harmonic oscillator, in lieu of square well potentials, and solve the model analytically. We derive the energy dispersion and wave functions for this model. This configuration has some important similarities and differences compared to the usual model. In particular, we write the governing equation in a form suggestive of the tight-binding approximation, as can be done for the usual model. In this way, it is straightforward to derive an expression for the tunneling amplitude used in tight-binding in terms of the harmonic oscillator potential parameters. |
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| spellingShingle | Analytical Solution to the Kronig-Penney Model with Harmonic Oscillator Wells: Insights to Tight-Binding Moore, Christopher Marsiglio, Frank Quantum Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons The celebrated Kronig-Penney model traditionally has been formulated with square well potentials representing atomic centres. Here, we use a slightly more realistic potential, the truncated harmonic oscillator, in lieu of square well potentials, and solve the model analytically. We derive the energy dispersion and wave functions for this model. This configuration has some important similarities and differences compared to the usual model. In particular, we write the governing equation in a form suggestive of the tight-binding approximation, as can be done for the usual model. In this way, it is straightforward to derive an expression for the tunneling amplitude used in tight-binding in terms of the harmonic oscillator potential parameters. |
| title | Analytical Solution to the Kronig-Penney Model with Harmonic Oscillator Wells: Insights to Tight-Binding |
| topic | Quantum Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08032 |