{
  "id": "1801.04730",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-01-15T10:45:41.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-01-15T10:45:41.000Z",
  "title": "Expectation values of $p^2$ and $p^4$ in the square well potential",
  "authors": [
    "Zafar Ahmed",
    "Dona Ghosh",
    "Sachin Kumar",
    "Joseph Amal Nathan"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages and six figures",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.other"
  ],
  "abstract": "Position and momentum representations of a wavefunction $\\psi(x)$ and $\\phi(p)$, respectively are physically equivalent yet mathematically in a given case one may be easier or more transparent than the other. This disparity may be so much so that one has to device a special strategy to get the quantity of interest in one of them. We revisit finite square well (FSW) in this regard. Circumventing the the problems of discontinuity of second and higher derivatives of $\\psi(x)$ we obtain simple analytic expressions of $<\\!p^2\\!>$ and $<\\!p^4\\!>$. But it is the surprising fall-off of $\\phi(p)$ as $p^{-6}$ that reveals and restricts $<\\!p^s\\!>$ to be finite and non-zero only for $s=2,4$. In finding $<\\!p^s\\!>(s=2,4)$ from $\\phi(p)$, $p$-integrals are improper which for time-being, have been evaluated numerically to show the agreement between two representations.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-01-15T10:45:41.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "expectation values",
      "simple analytic expressions",
      "revisit finite square",
      "momentum representations",
      "special strategy"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}