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Past exam of the further quantum theory course of the University of Oxford 2023 3 c Solution by
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Use the amplitudes and positive action integrals of part (a), and define the right-well phaseMatching at the inner classical turning point gives , . Matching the exterior decaying wavefunction at the outer classical turning point givesThe trigonometric identitytherefore yieldsAll three pieces on are now fixed up to and :The Airy function descriptions replace the apparent singularities at the classical turning points. For the permitted energy eigenvalues, part (d) extends this right-hand wavefunction to the left by even or odd parity; is then determined by wavefunction normalization. At arbitrary , the decaying right-hand solution instead has a unique continuation by the Schrödinger equation, which need not decay at negative infinity.
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