1 00:00:00,590 --> 00:00:03,560 PROFESSOR: So let's do a connection formula 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,970 and use it to solve a problem. 3 00:00:07,970 --> 00:00:10,430 The derivation of such connection formulas, 4 00:00:10,430 --> 00:00:12,200 we'll face it the next time. 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,710 And we'll go further applications of the methods. 6 00:00:15,710 --> 00:00:18,215 So, yes. 7 00:00:18,215 --> 00:00:23,740 AUDIENCE: So [INAUDIBLE] that problem like [INAUDIBLE] where 8 00:00:23,740 --> 00:00:25,820 the wave function vanished. 9 00:00:25,820 --> 00:00:29,180 Is that a problem of the [? our ?] perturbation 10 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:31,100 or a classical problem? 11 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:35,430 Because at that point, then it means the kinetics 12 00:00:35,430 --> 00:00:37,860 and the potential are equals to each other. 13 00:00:37,860 --> 00:00:42,810 So like the potential cannot be bigger than the energy, 14 00:00:42,810 --> 00:00:44,295 then that's a classical thing. 15 00:00:44,295 --> 00:00:45,790 That's not a perturbation problem. 16 00:00:45,790 --> 00:00:47,200 PROFESSOR: Right. 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,040 This is not a problem of the perturbation theory. 18 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:56,830 It's just our lack of knowledge, our ignorance of how 19 00:00:56,830 --> 00:00:59,080 the solution looks near there. 20 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,920 So there's nice WKB formulas for this solution 21 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,010 away from the turning points. 22 00:01:06,010 --> 00:01:07,480 Those are this. 23 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,520 But the solutions near the turning points 24 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,560 violate the semiclassical approximation. 25 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,650 Therefore, you have to find the solution near the turning 26 00:01:17,650 --> 00:01:20,560 points by any method you have. 27 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,220 That is not going to be the semiclassical method. 28 00:01:24,220 --> 00:01:27,310 And then you will find the continuation. 29 00:01:27,310 --> 00:01:31,330 Now, there's several ways people do this. 30 00:01:31,330 --> 00:01:33,670 The most down to earth method, which 31 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:36,160 is I think the method we're going to use next time, 32 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:42,190 is trying to solve the thing near there, the solution. 33 00:01:42,190 --> 00:01:44,830 People that are more sophisticated 34 00:01:44,830 --> 00:01:48,400 use complex variables, methods in which they 35 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,920 think of the solution in the complex plane, 36 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,170 the x plane becomes complex. 37 00:01:53,170 --> 00:01:55,410 And they're coming to the turning point 38 00:01:55,410 --> 00:01:58,540 and they go off the imaginary axis 39 00:01:58,540 --> 00:02:02,200 to avoid it and come on the other side. 40 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,050 It's very elegant, very nice, harder 41 00:02:05,050 --> 00:02:10,270 to make very precise, and a little difficult to explain. 42 00:02:10,270 --> 00:02:12,550 I don't know if I'll try to do that. 43 00:02:12,550 --> 00:02:14,350 But it's a nice thing. 44 00:02:14,350 --> 00:02:16,450 It's sort of avoiding the turning 45 00:02:16,450 --> 00:02:18,490 point by going off the axis. 46 00:02:18,490 --> 00:02:20,500 It sounds crazy. 47 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:25,870 So here is a connection formula. 48 00:02:25,870 --> 00:02:28,570 Here is x equals a. 49 00:02:28,570 --> 00:02:30,580 Here is v of x. 50 00:02:30,580 --> 00:02:36,520 And here is a solution for x less than a, little a, 51 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:41,650 I'll write it like that, p of x cosine x 52 00:02:41,650 --> 00:02:51,280 to a kappa k of x vx prime minus pi over 4 minus B 53 00:02:51,280 --> 00:03:02,490 over square root of p of K of x sine x 54 00:03:02,490 --> 00:03:10,170 to a k of x prime vx prime minus pi over 4. 55 00:03:10,170 --> 00:03:14,546 So look, this is a general solution in allowed region. 56 00:03:14,546 --> 00:03:16,920 [INAUDIBLE] no, it doesn't look like what you wrote here. 57 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:22,020 But sines and cosines are linear combinations of these things. 58 00:03:22,020 --> 00:03:26,640 And why do I put this silly minus pi over 4? 59 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:31,440 Because that's what my solutions connect 60 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,880 to solutions on the other side. 61 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,340 Which is to say that the solution on the other side, 62 00:03:38,340 --> 00:03:41,760 people that work this connection formulas, 63 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:49,710 discovered that takes this form, a to x 64 00:03:49,710 --> 00:03:58,470 kappa of x prime vx prime plus b over the square root of kappa 65 00:03:58,470 --> 00:04:12,005 of x e exponential a to x kappa of x prime vx prime. 66 00:04:15,270 --> 00:04:16,940 So here it is. 67 00:04:16,940 --> 00:04:19,459 Those numbers, a and b, are things 68 00:04:19,459 --> 00:04:21,680 you have to keep track now. 69 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,150 They say if your solution for x greater [INAUDIBLE] 70 00:04:26,150 --> 00:04:28,880 has this decaying exponential and this growing exponential 71 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:34,030 with b an a, your solution far to the left 72 00:04:34,030 --> 00:04:37,140 will look like this. 73 00:04:37,140 --> 00:04:40,540 It's a pretty strange statement. 74 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:43,240 Sometimes you don't want b to be 0. 75 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,100 Sometimes you do. 76 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:50,200 Let's do an example with this stuff 77 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,510 so that you can appreciate what goes on. 78 00:05:05,150 --> 00:05:09,410 So that's your first look at a connection condition. 79 00:05:09,410 --> 00:05:15,020 There's a little bit of subtleties on how to use them. 80 00:05:15,020 --> 00:05:19,470 We will discuss those subtleties next time, as well. 81 00:05:19,470 --> 00:05:24,320 But let's use it in a case where we can make sense of this 82 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,610 without too much trouble. 83 00:05:26,610 --> 00:05:29,720 So here is the example. 84 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,890 And somebody wants you to solve the following problem. 85 00:05:33,890 --> 00:05:37,340 You have some slowly varying potential 86 00:05:37,340 --> 00:05:41,690 that grows, grows indefinitely. 87 00:05:41,690 --> 00:05:42,830 v of x. 88 00:05:42,830 --> 00:05:47,330 And you wish to find the energy eigenstates. 89 00:05:47,330 --> 00:05:52,240 In particular, you wish to find the energies. 90 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,420 What are the possible energies of this potential? 91 00:05:56,420 --> 00:06:01,700 This potential with have a infinite wall here. 92 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:04,000 So the potential is infinite here. 93 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,390 And it grows like that up on this side. 94 00:06:11,010 --> 00:06:16,180 We're going to try to write the solution for this. 95 00:06:16,180 --> 00:06:24,860 So we'll do this with the WKB solution. 96 00:06:24,860 --> 00:06:29,710 And let me do it in an efficient way. 97 00:06:29,710 --> 00:06:32,160 So what do we have here? 98 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,280 This is the analog of our point x equals a. 99 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:38,910 Is that right? 100 00:06:38,910 --> 00:06:44,310 This is the point where the turning solution goes funny. 101 00:06:44,310 --> 00:06:48,390 So we will call it, for the same reason we did before, 102 00:06:48,390 --> 00:06:52,695 this point a will make matters clearer. 103 00:06:58,250 --> 00:07:00,740 We truly don't know what that point 104 00:07:00,740 --> 00:07:04,200 is because we truly don't know what are the allowed energies. 105 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:09,740 But so far we can write E as a variable that we don't know. 106 00:07:09,740 --> 00:07:14,030 And a can be determined if you know E because you know 107 00:07:14,030 --> 00:07:17,451 the shape of the potential. 108 00:07:17,451 --> 00:07:17,950 OK. 109 00:07:17,950 --> 00:07:23,860 So let's think of the region, x much greater than a. 110 00:07:23,860 --> 00:07:25,420 We are here. 111 00:07:25,420 --> 00:07:27,100 We're in a forbidden region. 112 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:30,710 And the potential is still slowly varying. 113 00:07:30,710 --> 00:07:33,850 Let's assume that slope is small. 114 00:07:33,850 --> 00:07:37,465 So a solution of this type would make sense. 115 00:07:40,030 --> 00:07:46,710 So we must have a WKB solution on this right hand side 116 00:07:46,710 --> 00:07:51,450 to the right of x equals a. 117 00:07:51,450 --> 00:07:55,620 And that's the most general solution we'll have. 118 00:07:55,620 --> 00:07:58,440 On the other hand, here there's two types 119 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,670 of solutions, a growing exponential and a decaying 120 00:08:02,670 --> 00:08:03,550 exponential. 121 00:08:03,550 --> 00:08:08,040 And we must have only the decaying exponential. 122 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,940 Because this potential never turns. 123 00:08:11,940 --> 00:08:16,800 If this potential would grow here and then turn down, 124 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,430 you might have what is called the tunneling problem. 125 00:08:20,430 --> 00:08:22,920 And this has to be rethought. 126 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,840 But this problem is still a little easier. 127 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,520 We have just this potential growing forever. 128 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,530 And on the right, we must have b equal to 0. 129 00:08:34,530 --> 00:08:42,300 For x greater than a solution, b is equal to 0. 130 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:49,290 And this solution must have a different from 0. 131 00:08:49,290 --> 00:08:54,120 But if the solution has a different from 0, 132 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,840 we now know the solution on this region, 133 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,090 x significantly less than a. 134 00:09:03,090 --> 00:09:05,640 In this region we know the solution is 135 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,170 given by that formula up there. 136 00:09:08,170 --> 00:09:13,590 So our solution for x much less than a, the solution 137 00:09:13,590 --> 00:09:17,340 must take the form whatever a is. 138 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:19,440 1, 2, 3. 139 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,320 I kind of normalized these things yet. 140 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,780 So the solution, I'll write it, psi of x, will be of the form 1 141 00:09:27,780 --> 00:09:36,450 over square root of k of x cosine of x 142 00:09:36,450 --> 00:09:43,900 to a k of x prime vx prime minus pi over 4. 143 00:09:46,650 --> 00:09:49,080 All right. 144 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,850 That's what WKB predicts because of the connection condition. 145 00:09:53,850 --> 00:09:58,080 On the forbidden region, you know which wave exists. 146 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:02,220 And therefore, far to the left of the turning point, 147 00:10:02,220 --> 00:10:04,390 you'd also know the wave function. 148 00:10:04,390 --> 00:10:08,750 It's the term within a. 149 00:10:08,750 --> 00:10:11,550 So have we solved the problem? 150 00:10:11,550 --> 00:10:13,332 Well, I don't think we have. 151 00:10:13,332 --> 00:10:18,020 We still don't know the energy, so we must have not solved it. 152 00:10:18,020 --> 00:10:22,880 In fact, it doesn't look like we've solved it at all. 153 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:28,580 Because at x equals 0, these wave functions 154 00:10:28,580 --> 00:10:33,870 should vanish because there's a hard wall. 155 00:10:33,870 --> 00:10:40,590 And I don't see any reason why it would vanish. 156 00:10:40,590 --> 00:10:49,350 So let's do a little work here expanding this 157 00:10:49,350 --> 00:10:52,150 and orienting it a little better. 158 00:10:52,150 --> 00:10:59,820 So I want to write this integral from 0, x to a. 159 00:10:59,820 --> 00:11:01,140 You're having an integral. 160 00:11:01,140 --> 00:11:05,220 You have 0, x, and a. 161 00:11:05,220 --> 00:11:08,430 Because we are in the x less than a region, 162 00:11:08,430 --> 00:11:13,300 this integral is the one that we have here. 163 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:15,750 I'll write it as an integral from 0 164 00:11:15,750 --> 00:11:20,220 to a minus an integral from 0 to x. 165 00:11:20,220 --> 00:11:26,280 So integral from x to a is equal to integral 166 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:33,220 from 0 to a minus an integral from 0 to x. 167 00:11:33,220 --> 00:11:35,155 This will make things a little clearer. 168 00:11:53,070 --> 00:12:02,270 In fact, we could do things still a little easier. 169 00:12:02,270 --> 00:12:04,620 So what do we have here? 170 00:12:04,620 --> 00:12:08,690 We have this exponential, the wave function. 171 00:12:08,690 --> 00:12:11,270 Not an exponential, a trigonometric function. 172 00:12:11,270 --> 00:12:21,400 1 over square root of k of x cosine of minus the integral 173 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:27,105 from 0 to x of k of x dx prime. 174 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,570 This integral gives rise to two integrals 175 00:12:34,570 --> 00:12:35,555 and I wrote the first. 176 00:12:40,610 --> 00:12:42,560 Then I come with the other [? sine ?] 177 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:48,590 plus the integral from 0 to a of k prime of x dx 178 00:12:48,590 --> 00:12:50,960 prime minus pi over 4. 179 00:12:54,290 --> 00:12:58,555 And let's call this thing delta. 180 00:13:07,210 --> 00:13:10,130 So let's explore this wave function a little more. 181 00:13:10,130 --> 00:13:13,460 So things have become kind of nice. 182 00:13:13,460 --> 00:13:16,280 There's no x dependence here. 183 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,280 That's very nice about this part of the formula. 184 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,070 This is an angle. 185 00:13:22,070 --> 00:13:23,210 No x dependence. 186 00:13:23,210 --> 00:13:29,000 And the x dependence is just here from this term. 187 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,710 And it's a nice x dependence because it's an integral from 0 188 00:13:32,710 --> 00:13:33,290 to x. 189 00:13:33,290 --> 00:13:35,030 So it's kind of nice. 190 00:13:35,030 --> 00:13:37,750 The upper limit has the x. 191 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:39,520 It's all kind of elegant. 192 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,830 So trigonometric function of this cosine 193 00:13:44,830 --> 00:13:55,986 of a difference of things is equal to its cosine 194 00:13:55,986 --> 00:14:10,710 of the first term, 0 to x k of x prime dx prime cosine delta 195 00:14:10,710 --> 00:14:21,311 plus sine of the first term 0 to x k of x prime dx prime sine 196 00:14:21,311 --> 00:14:21,810 delta. 197 00:14:30,420 --> 00:14:34,420 You have this quantity and this delta. 198 00:14:34,420 --> 00:14:38,440 So I use this trigonometric sum. 199 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:38,940 OK. 200 00:14:38,940 --> 00:14:43,275 But now you can see something nice. 201 00:14:48,050 --> 00:14:51,000 What did we say about the wave function? 202 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,305 It had to vanish at the origin. 203 00:14:57,110 --> 00:15:00,870 And let's look at these two functions. 204 00:15:00,870 --> 00:15:04,080 Which one vanishes at the origin? 205 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,530 You have cosine of the integral from 0 206 00:15:07,530 --> 00:15:12,480 to x when x is equal to 0 at the origin is cosine 207 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,490 of 0, which is 1. 208 00:15:14,490 --> 00:15:18,630 On the other hand, when x is small, x goes to 0. 209 00:15:18,630 --> 00:15:22,720 You get 0 for the integral and the sine vanishes. 210 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,640 So this is the right term. 211 00:15:28,770 --> 00:15:32,300 So this wave function would be correct 212 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:34,310 if this term would be absent. 213 00:15:34,310 --> 00:15:36,335 This is a term that you must make absent. 214 00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:44,250 Psi of x without that term would be a valid wave function. 215 00:15:44,250 --> 00:15:46,780 It is the wave function. 216 00:15:46,780 --> 00:15:49,530 Therefore, the right wave function 217 00:15:49,530 --> 00:15:54,420 if we demand that cosine delta be equal to 0. 218 00:15:54,420 --> 00:15:59,250 So now we're imposing a very non-trivial condition. 219 00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:03,030 This wave over there. 220 00:16:03,030 --> 00:16:06,490 This contribution to the argument, to the angle 221 00:16:06,490 --> 00:16:12,940 here, this delta must be such that cosine delta is 0. 222 00:16:12,940 --> 00:16:16,510 In which case, this term would disappear 223 00:16:16,510 --> 00:16:18,700 and we would have a good wave function. 224 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:23,350 Psi of x, if this is true, is 1 over square root 225 00:16:23,350 --> 00:16:29,890 of k of x times sine times the sine delta, which 226 00:16:29,890 --> 00:16:30,960 is another number. 227 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:36,945 Sine of 0 to x k of x prime dx prime. 228 00:16:40,450 --> 00:16:44,560 So we need cosine delta equal to 0. 229 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,680 You know, this argument gives you 230 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:53,440 this wave function in a nice way here written what it is. 231 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:58,840 But we would have been able to find this even faster. 232 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:03,730 If you just demand that Psi at x equals 0 is 0, 233 00:17:03,730 --> 00:17:09,310 you must have that this thing, the integral from 0 to a 234 00:17:09,310 --> 00:17:14,319 of this quantity minus pi over 4 must have 0 cosine. 235 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:17,440 And that's the condition we did fine. 236 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,599 The advantage of our rearrangement 237 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,480 is that when that happens, the whole wave function 238 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:23,950 looks like that. 239 00:17:23,950 --> 00:17:25,329 And that's kind of nice. 240 00:17:25,329 --> 00:17:28,840 That gives you the picture of the wave function. 241 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,665 A fairly accurate picture of the wave function in this region. 242 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:41,050 Not very near the turning point, but you got that. 243 00:17:41,050 --> 00:17:43,970 So what is this cosine delta going to 0? 244 00:17:46,630 --> 00:17:57,160 Well then delta must be 2n plus 1 times pi over 2. 245 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:02,410 So the places where the cosine is 0 is pi over 2. 246 00:18:02,410 --> 00:18:04,330 That's for n equals 0. 247 00:18:04,330 --> 00:18:06,185 3 pi over 2. 248 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,420 So for n equal 1. 249 00:18:10,420 --> 00:18:11,560 And it just goes. 250 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,720 The vertical axis and the unit circle. 251 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:21,730 So this is for n equals 0, 1, 2, 3, goes on and on. 252 00:18:21,730 --> 00:18:27,100 And this is a very wonderful condition. 253 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:35,110 This says that the integral from 0 to a of k of x prime dx 254 00:18:35,110 --> 00:18:38,500 prime minus pi over 4. 255 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:42,880 So actually, we have here you can multiply the 2 here. 256 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,010 You get an n. 257 00:18:44,010 --> 00:18:47,510 And then you have pi over 2. 258 00:18:47,510 --> 00:18:50,830 And the pi over 4 that comes from that term 259 00:18:50,830 --> 00:18:58,770 becomes n plus 3/4 pi. 260 00:18:58,770 --> 00:19:03,990 It's a Bohr-Sommerfeld quintessential condition. 261 00:19:03,990 --> 00:19:07,290 Look, I box that equation because that really 262 00:19:07,290 --> 00:19:08,650 gives you the answer. 263 00:19:08,650 --> 00:19:10,170 Now, why? 264 00:19:10,170 --> 00:19:13,590 Because you know what k is. 265 00:19:13,590 --> 00:19:20,040 k p of x is equal to h bar k is square root 266 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,745 of 2n E minus v of x. 267 00:19:29,050 --> 00:19:32,770 And if you know E, you know a. 268 00:19:32,770 --> 00:19:36,430 So you have now an integral. 269 00:19:36,430 --> 00:19:39,160 And you take, for example, n equals 0. 270 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,890 So you want the integral to be equal to 3/4 pi. 271 00:19:42,890 --> 00:19:45,400 But you will have to start changing the value 272 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,030 of the energy with your computer if you cannot do the integral 273 00:19:49,030 --> 00:19:52,480 analytically and find, oops, for this value of the energy 274 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:57,670 the integral of what I know, this is a known function, 275 00:19:57,670 --> 00:19:58,870 gives me this value. 276 00:19:58,870 --> 00:20:03,460 So this is a very practical way of finding the energy levels. 277 00:20:03,460 --> 00:20:07,120 It does give you the approximate energy levels. 278 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:11,560 And it's remarkably accurate in many cases. 279 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:16,600 It also has a little intuition this 280 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,820 is for n equals 0 would be like the ground state. 281 00:20:20,820 --> 00:20:23,650 n equal 1 first take on excited states. 282 00:20:23,650 --> 00:20:25,570 And indeed, that makes sense. 283 00:20:25,570 --> 00:20:31,780 Because this integral from 0 to a of k 284 00:20:31,780 --> 00:20:35,680 is the total phase of the wave function 285 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,160 as you move from 0 to a. 286 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:43,360 And that wave is a number of factor n 287 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,670 times pi plus a little bit. 288 00:20:45,670 --> 00:20:49,210 So it has time for m 0s. 289 00:20:49,210 --> 00:20:55,000 The phase as you move from 0 to a in the wave function, 290 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,830 the sine function will have n 0s if this condition 291 00:20:59,830 --> 00:21:02,330 is satisfied consistent with that solution. 292 00:21:02,330 --> 00:21:03,550 So that's it. 293 00:21:03,550 --> 00:21:05,170 We'll continue next time. 294 00:21:05,170 --> 00:21:07,840 Find the solution of WKB exactly. 295 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,770 All right.