% % w09herm.m -- (djm: 03 mar 2004) % - hermite-gaussian solution % clear % coordinates omega = 1; n = 24; asq = (2*n+1)/omega; a = sqrt(asq); L = 1.5*a; eta = -L:0.01:L; Npts = size(eta,2); x = eta/sqrt(omega); % gaussian factor & hermite gauss = exp(-0.5*eta.^2); hvects = zeros(n+1,Npts); for j = 1:Npts hvects(:,j) = hermite(n,eta(j))'; end % plot eigenfunctions figure(1); clf; subplot(2,1,1); hold on for k = n+1:n+1 y = hvects(k,:).*gauss; y = y/y((Npts-1)/2); plot(x,y,'b') end axis([-L L -2 2]) grid title(['\bf hermite gaussian']) ylabel(['\bf n = ' num2str(k-1) ' ef']) subplot(2,1,2); hold on for k = 5:5 y = hvects(k,:).*gauss; y = y/y((Npts-1)/2); plot(x,y,'b') end axis([-L L -2 2]) grid ylabel(['\bf n = ' num2str(k-1) ' ef']) xlabel('\bf x-axis') % - - - - - - % % wkb solution x0 = -a:a/1001:a; x0 = x0(2:end-1); Qx = 0.5*x0.*sqrt(asq - x0.^2) + 0.5*asq*asin(x0/a); amp = (asq./(asq-x0.^2)).^(1/4); wkb1 = cos(omega*Qx); wkb2 = amp.*wkb1; subplot(2,1,1) plot(x0,wkb2,'r--') plot([ a a],[-2 2],'k--') plot([-a -a],[-2 2],'k--') % turning point connection ep = (2*a*omega^2)^(-1/3); y = -10:0.1:10; % plot turning points x1 = a + ep*y; turn1 = real(airy(0,y)); turn2 = sqrt(pi)*((a/2/ep)^(1/4)) * turn1; plot(x1,turn2,'m--') axis([-L L -max(turn2)*1.2 max(turn2)*1.2])