Phys 5521 Practice Problems Set #8

1. For a particle in 2D with the Hamiltonian

1 2 1
H= (px + p2y ) + mω 2 (x2 + 4y 2) + byp2x ,
2m 2
where b is small, determine:

(i) the eigenstates and eigenenergies in the limit b = 0.

(ii) the eigenstates to the leading order and the energies to the first order in b for the first pair of
degenerate states.

2. Obtain the first excited states to zeroth order and the energies to first order for a particle in a 2D
infinite square well with the perturbation
(
λδ(x − a/2)δ(y − a/2), 0 < x, y < a
V (x, y) =
∞, otherwise,

where a is the length of each side and λ is small.