Construction of potential functions associated with a given energy spectrum

Abstract

Using a formulation of quantum mechanics based on orthogonal polynomials in the energy and physical parameters, we present a method that gives the class of potential functions for exactly solvable problems corresponding to a given energy spectrum. In this work, we study the class of problems with a mix of continuous and discrete energy spectrum that are associated with the continuous dual Hahn polynomial. These include the one-dimensional logarithmic potential and the three-dimensional Coulomb plus linear potential.