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What the one-dimensional potentials examples establish
Scope of the examples page of the one-dimensional potentials pair: exact finite checks of the barrier transmission, the finite-well root conditions and counts, and the Dirichlet box spectrum and nodes. The remark asserts no new physical result, records no measurement and makes no claim about nature.
Scope of the examples page
The three computations. Tunnelling through a rectangular barrier: an exactly solvable scaling and its thick-barrier comparison treats the rectangular barrier of Rectangular barrier: scattering solution, flux balance and transmission at the exactly solvable scaling with : it obtains and as exact rationals, brackets them by , compares the exact value with the thick-barrier value (the difference is exactly ) and verifies the theorem's error bound ; the computation is a finite check of the model formulas, including the positivity of transmission through a classically forbidden barrier. Finite square well: an exactly solvable bound state and exact bound-state counts exhibits a declared well depth at which the unique bound state is exactly solvable (even state, , binding energy ), verifies the even root condition with the special value , and verifies the count and branch criterion at declared depths: exactly three bound states with types even, odd, even when , exactly one when , exactly two when , and at least one for every . The Dirichlet box: exact spectrum, nodes, constant shift and gaps records the exact free Dirichlet box eigenpairs with sine eigenfunctions, their explicit nodal points , the exact spectrum of a constant potential with the min-max bound attained, and the positive gaps .
What is and is not compared. The comparisons are internal: the exact barrier formula and its thick-barrier approximation, the exact well root condition and the exact branch count, and the exact box spectrum with the min-max bound. They verify the cited theorems at declared parameter points by exact rational and algebraic checks; they are not numerical approximations of generic transcendental roots, they contain no simulation presented as data, and they report no measured value, no uncertainty and no significance statement. The displayed decimals are rational bracket endpoints or exact terminating decimal expansions of rational values, including ; each is justified in the verifications.
Evidence status. All three items are conditional computations in the declared line, well and box models of the pair's A page, under the same P1, P2, P4, P5 assumptions and the same cited mathematics; the empirical qualifications of the A page carry over unchanged. Nothing on this page is an observation, an apparatus model or a statistical inference, and agreement of the displayed identities with any measurement would be evidence about the combined model and apparatus assumptions rather than a proof of the model.
Depends on
Tunnelling through a rectangular barrier: an exactly solvable scaling and its thick-barrier comparison
Finite square well: an exactly solvable bound state and exact bound-state counts
The Dirichlet box: exact spectrum, nodes, constant shift and gaps
Rectangular barrier: scattering solution, flux balance and transmission
Finite square well: bound-state conditions, simplicity and count
Interval models: discrete spectra, complete eigenbases, min-max bounds and nodal counts
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- D. Tong, Quantum Mechanics (author-hosted lecture set), Chapter 2, printed pages 19-63 (PDF pages 22-66): one-dimensional potentials, wells, barriers and tunnelling
- J. Binney and D. Skinner, The Physics of Quantum Mechanics, Chapter 5, printed pages 75-103 (PDF pages 83-111): square wells, scattering and tunnelling