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Recently I read a paper about solving radial Schrodinger equation with inverse power law potential. Consider the radial Schrodinger equation(simply set $\mu=\hbar=1$): ...
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I just read a paper 'A pocket calculator determination of energy eigenvalues' by J Killingbeck (1979). Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/0305-4470/10/6/001 I have some questions about section 2. Why ...