Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 632603, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/632603

Research Article

Scattering State of Klein-Gordon Particles by -Parameter Hyperbolic Poschl-Teller Potential

Akpan Ndem Ikot,¹ Hillary P. Obong,¹ Israel O. Owate,¹ Michael C. Onyeaju,¹ and Hassan Hassanabadi²

¹Theoretical Physics Group, Department of Physics, University of Port Harcourt, PMB 5323, Choba, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
²Physics Department, University of Shahrood, Shahrood, Iran

Received 2 June 2015; Revised 14 July 2015; Accepted 16 July 2015

Academic Editor: Reinhard Schlickeiser

Copyright © 2015 Akpan Ndem Ikot et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP³.

Abstract.

The one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation for equal vector and scalar -parameter hyperbolic Poschl-Teller potential is solved in terms of the hypergeometric functions. We calculate in detail the solutions of the scattering and bound states. By virtue of the conditions of equation of continuity of the wave functions, we obtained explicit expressions for the reflection and transmission coefficients and energy equation for the bound state solutions.

1. Introduction

The scattering states of the relativistic and nonrelativistic wave equation in recent times have received great attention in physics [1–9]. Scattering and bound state solutions of asymmetric Hulthen potential have been obtained by Arda and Sever [10]. Also, the bound state and scattering state of Klein-Gordon equation with effective mass formalism have been studied by Aydoğdu et al. [11]. Aydoğdu et al. [12] examined the scattering and bound states of massive Dirac equation with Woods-Saxon potential. Rojas and Vilalba [13] in their investigation had shown the relation between the bound state energy eigenvalues and transmission resonances for the Klein-Gordon particle with Woods-Saxon potential as the same for the Dirac particle. Hassanabadi et al. [14, 15] investigated the scattering state of relativistic spinless particles with Kink-like potential and scattering of Woods-Saxon potential in the framework of minimal length. The scattering states of relativistic and nonrelativistic particles with Woods-Saxon potential and mass dependent Woods-Saxon potential have been studied by Alpdoğan et al. [16] and Arda et al. [17]. Recently, Alpdoğan studied the scattering of massive Dirac particles with generalized asymmetric Woods-Saxon potential [18]. Yanar et al. studied the scattering and bound state of Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau particles with q-parameter hyperbolic Poschl-Teller (qHPT) potential [19]. The qHPT potential is defined as follows:

where is the step function, is the deformation parameter and , is the height of the potential, , , and is the range of the potential barrier. This potential plays an important role in describing the interactions in molecular, atomic, and nuclear physics. One of the findings of physics is to understand the structures of nucleus, atoms, molecules, and other material objects. Thus, the sole aim of physicists is to create unique models that contain the physically motivated potential that will describe the interactions between particles. A few numbers of these potential models have been identified to describe the interaction in the nuclei and diatomic and polyatomic molecules [20, 21]. The applications of the Poschl-Teller-like type potential for analyzing the bound states energy of -particle in hypernuclei in nuclear physics had been reported [19]. Furthermore, the qHPT potential may found much usefulness in molecular, atomic, and nuclear physics.

Understanding of our knowledge about fine scale systems has been gained by investigations into scattering and bounded state of such systems. Therefore, the scattering problem has become an interesting topic in relativistic or nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. In the case of nonrelativistic scattering problem, it has been shown that transmission and reflection coefficients take 1 and 0, respectively, as external potential has well behaved at infinity for the zero energy limit [22–24]. However, reflection coefficient goes to zero while transmission coefficient goes to unity in the zero energy limit when external potential supports a half-bound state. This situation was called as transmission resonance [25] which is escorted by fluctuations phenomena. The transmission resonance concept has been recently generalized to the relativistic case [26].

In this work, we attempt to study the solution of scattering state of the Klein-Gordon equation with equal vector and scalar (qHPT) potential. Our aim will be to calculate in detail the reflection () and transmission () coefficients and obtain the bound state solution of the qHPT potential using the equation of continuity of the wave function.

2. Scattering State Solutions of Klein-Gordon Equation for the qHPT Potential

The time-independent Klein-Gordon equation with equal scalar and vector potentials can be written as [12]

where is the relativistic energy of the particles and is the mass of the particle. In order to obtain the scattering solution for qHPT potential, we consider both and at . We intend to study the scattering of (2); we now seek the wave function for the case . By substituting (1) into (2), we have

To solve (3), we used a new variable defined as which yields

where

Defining the wave function in (4) as , then (4) turns into the hypergeometric differential equation [27]

where , , and are defined as follows:

Regarding properties of hypergeometric functions the minus sign should be chosen for . The solutions of (6) can be written in terms of the hypergeometric function as follows:

The general solutions for are given as

Next, we investigate the solution for . Again substituting (1) into (2) yields

Defining the new variable and redefining the ansatz for the wave function as , the solutions of (10) become

where

Here we also should choose the minus sign for . We seek for the physical results of the problem under investigation; therefore in order to get this physical result, the solutions obtained have to be used with appropriate boundary conditions as and . Applying the asymptotic solution to (9) for , as and , becomes

In order to find a plane wave traveling from left to right, we set in (11) and the asymptotic behavior of the right solution becomes

Now in order to give explicit expressions for the coefficients, we use the continuity conditions of the wave function and its derivative defined as

where the prime denotes differential with respect to . Applying these conditions on the wave function and matching the wave function at , we get

where the following abbreviations have been used:

And the property of hypergeometric function [28] has been used in obtaining (17). The one-dimensional current density for the Klein-Gordon equation in terms of the relativistic units () is given by [29]

The reflection and transmission coefficients are defined in terms of current density as follows:

Now using these equations and after a tedious algebra, we obtain the reflection and transmission coefficients as

We have depicted in Figure 5  that the sum of reflection and transmission coefficients approaches unity.

3. Bound State Solutions of Klein-Gordon Equation for the qHPT Potential

In order to find the bound state solutions for the Klein-Gordon particle with qHPT potential, we map .

3.1. Bound State Solutions in the Negative Region

The bound state solutions can be found in this region by changing the variable and taking into consideration and (3) becomes

where

Taking a wave function of the form , then (22) turns into the hypergeometric differential equation [27]

with , , and defined as follows:

We choose minus sign for in equation (25). The general solutions for are given as

3.2. Bound State Solutions in the Positive Region

In the positive region, we defined the variable with and taking the wave function and following the same procedures as the case of negative region, we obtain the solutions for the positive region as follows:

where

And as mentioned above the minus sing should be chosen. In order to find the equation for the energy eigenvalues, we set and used the conditions of continuity for the wave function as , and we get

where

Equation (29) admits a solution if and only if its determinant is zero [30]. This thus provides a condition for getting the energy eigenvalues as

Energy equation (31) is a complicated transcendental equation and can only be solved numerically.

4. Results and Discussion

The behaviors of the qHPT potential as a function of are displayed in Figures 1–4 for various values of qHPT potential parameters. For and , the qHPT potential turns to cusp potential which is the consistent one reported in [31]. However, if we map and in (31) our results reduced to the cusp potential for the nonrelativistic regime as reported in [32].

Figure 1: The plot of the qHPT potential as a function of position with , , 2, and for and , respectively.

Figure 2: The plot of the qHPT potential as a function of position with , , 2, and for and , respectively.

Figure 3: The plot of the qHPT potential as a function of position with , , and for and , respectively.

Figure 4: The plot of the qHPT potential as a function of position with , , and and for and , respectively.

Figure 5: Transmission () and reflection () coefficients versus are depicted.

5. Conclusions

We solved the relativistic spinless Klein-Gordon particles for the qHPT potential and calculated the wave functions that describe the scattering states in terms of hypergeometric function. By mapping of the potential parameter of qHPT potential, we also solved the bound state solution of the Klein-Gordon equation. By virtue of the equation of continuity of the wave function and the asymptotic properties of the solutions of the wave function, we calculate in detail the reflection and transmission coefficients and bound state solution by the vanishes of the determinant of the coefficients of the wave functions for the qHPT potential. This study can find many applications of physics especially in the interaction of nuclei in nuclear physics.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful for the right and faithful comments of the referees that improved the paper.

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