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Effects of the perturbation

Show that tex2html_wrap_inline626 , the shift in energy of the odd state, is exactly the average perturbation potential experienced by a particle in the n=2 state of the unperturbed potential, tex2html_wrap_inline630 .

Determine for small values of D, the shift in energy of the ground state, tex2html_wrap_inline634 to lowest order in D.
Hint: For this you may find the expansion tex2html_wrap_inline638 for tex2html_wrap_inline640 useful.

Show that if we take the tex2html_wrap_inline462 -function to be a very narrow region of width tex2html_wrap_inline644 with a large constant potential tex2html_wrap_inline646 , that the shift in energy of the ground state, to first order, is precisely the product of the probability that a particle in the ground state of the unperturbed well is in the region of the tex2html_wrap_inline462 -function times the value of the potential in that region.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Fri Apr 25 11:33:56 EDT 1997