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Solutions of the TISE (25 pts total)

Background: A particle of mass m is confined in one dimension to the ``double well'' potential indicated in Figure 2. Interestingly, for this well there are special values of for which the ground state energy does not depend on the size of the bump in the middle as long as we keep a constant. The goal of this problem is to determine for what finite non-zero values of is the ground state energy independent of R, where a>0.

  
Figure 2: Double Potential Well





Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Fri Apr 19 09:33:33 EDT 1996