E-Journal of Chemistry (Jan 2009)

Variational Principle Techniques and the Propertiesof a Cut-off and Anharmonic Wave Function

  • A. N. Ikot,
  • L. E. Akpabio,
  • K. Essien,
  • E. E. Ituen,
  • I. B. Obot

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/202791
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 113 – 119

Abstract

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The variational principles are very useful analytical tool for the study of the ground state energy of any dynamical system. In this work, we have evaluated the method and techniques of variational principle to derive the ground state energy for the harmonic, cut-off and anharmonic oscillators with a ground state wave function for a one-body Hamiltonian in three dimensions.