WKB Treatment of Bound States in an Electric-Dipole Potential
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in American Journal of Physics
- Vol. 34 (7) , 606-610
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1973123
Abstract
The WKB method is applied to the problem of bound states of an electron in the field of a finite dipole. A necessary condition for binding is derived which suggests that bound states may exist only if the dipole moment is larger than a certain minimum value. It is also shown that the number of bound states given by the WKB method is comparable to the exact number for the one- and three-dimensional square-well potentials.Keywords
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