Alternative approaches to the description of quantum dynamics in multi-well potentials

Abstract

We consider three different approaches to analyze the quantum mechanical problems in multi-well potentials: i) the standard matrix diagonalization technique in the basis sets of harmonic oscillator eigenfunctions or plain waves; ii) the spectral method, which allows to reconstruct the spectrum and stationary functions based on the time-dependent solution of the Schr\"odinger equation; iii) approximations with exact solutions obtained by the supersymmetric quantum mechanics technique. The latter approach proves to be the most promising as it gives a unique possibility to include the specific multi-well features of the problem directly in the calculation procedure.