Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-further-quantum-theory-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/3/c/solution

Use the amplitudes and positive action integrals of part (a), and define the right-well phase
Matching at the inner classical turning point gives , . Matching the exterior decaying wavefunction at the outer classical turning point gives
The trigonometric identity
therefore yields
All 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.

New to topics? Read the docs here!