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<journal-id>1870-3542</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de física E]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. mex. fís. E]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1870-3542</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Mexicana de Física]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1870-35422006000200010</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Transfer matrices for piecewise constant potentials]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Torres del Castillo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[G.F.]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rubalcava García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[I.]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Instituto de Ciencias Departamento de Física Matemática]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Puebla ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Puebla ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2006</year>
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<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2006</year>
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<volume>52</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>172</fpage>
<lpage>176</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1870-35422006000200010&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1870-35422006000200010&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1870-35422006000200010&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[By expressing the time-independent Schrödinger equation in one dimension as a system of two first-order differential equations, the transfer matrix for a rectangular potential barrier is obtained making use of the matrix exponential. It is shown that the transfer matrix allows one to find the bound states and the quasinormal modes. A similar treatment for the one-dimensional propagation of electromagnetic waves in a homogeneous medium is also presented.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Expresando la ecuación de Schrödinger independiente del tiempo en una dimensión como un sistema de dos ecuaciones diferenciales de primer orden, se obtiene la matriz de transferencia para una barrera de potencial rectangular haciendo uso de la exponencial de matrices. Se muestra que la matriz de transferencia permite hallar los estados ligados y los modos cuasinormales. Se presenta también un tratamiento similar para la propagación unidimensional de ondas electromagnéticas en un medio homogéneo.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Scattering]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[transfer matrix]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[quasinormal modes]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[layered systems]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Dispersión]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[matriz de transferencia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[modos cuasinormales]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="4">Ense&ntilde;anza</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>Transfer matrices for piecewise constant potentials</b></font></p>  	    <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>G.F. Torres del Castillo</b> <b>y I. Rubalcava Garc&iacute;a</b></font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"></font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><i>Departamento de F&iacute;sica Matem&aacute;tica, Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de Puebla, 72570 Puebla, Pue., M&eacute;xico.</i></font></p>      <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><i>Facultad de Ciencias F&iacute;sico Matem&aacute;ticas, Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de Puebla, Apartado Postal 1152, 72001 Puebla, Pue., M&eacute;xico.</i></font></p>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">Recibido el 19 de diciembre de 2005;    <br> 	aceptado el 2 de junio de 2005</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Abstract</b></font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">By expressing the time&#45;independent <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">Schr&ouml;dinger</span> equation in one dimension as a system of two first&#45;order differential equations, the transfer matrix for a rectangular potential barrier is obtained making use of the matrix exponential. It is shown that the transfer matrix allows one to find the bound states and the quasinormal modes. A similar treatment for the one&#45;dimensional propagation of electromagnetic waves in a homogeneous medium is also presented.</font></p>      <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Keywords:</b> Scattering; transfer matrix; quasinormal modes; layered systems.</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Resumen</b></font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">Expresando la ecuaci&oacute;n de <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">Schr&ouml;dinger</span> independiente del tiempo en una dimensi&oacute;n como un sistema de dos ecuaciones diferenciales de primer orden, se obtiene la matriz de transferencia para una barrera de potencial rectangular haciendo uso de la exponencial de matrices. Se muestra que la matriz de transferencia permite hallar los estados ligados y los modos cuasinormales. Se presenta tambi&eacute;n un tratamiento similar para la propagaci&oacute;n unidimensional de ondas electromagn&eacute;ticas en un medio homog&eacute;neo.</font></p>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Descriptores:</b> Dispersi&oacute;n; matriz de transferencia; modos cuasinormales; sistemas en capas.</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">PACS: 03.65.&#45;w; 02.10.Ud</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><a href="/pdf/rmfe/v52n2/v52n2a10.pdf" target="_blank">DESCARGAR ART&Iacute;CULO EN FORMATO PDF</a></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>References</b></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">1. L.I. Schiff, <i>Quantum Mechanics,</i> 3rd ed. (McGraw&#45;Hill, New York, 1968).    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445090&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000001&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">2. S. Gasiorowicz, <i>Quantum Physics</i> (Wiley, New York, 1974).    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445092&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000002&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">3. I.I. Gol'dman and V.D. Krivchenkov, <i>Problems in Quantum Mechanics</i> (Pergamon, London, 1961; reprinted by Dover, New York, 1993).    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445094&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000003&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">4. K. Gottfried and T&#45;M. Yan, <i>Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals,</i> 2nd ed. (Springer, New York, 2003).    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445096&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000004&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">5. L.L. Sanchez&#45;Soto, J.F. Cari&ntilde;ena, A.G. Barriuso, and J.J. Monzon, <i>Eur. J. Phys.</i> <b>26</b> (2005) 469.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445098&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000005&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">6. J.R. Reitz, F.J. Milford, and R.W. Christy, <i>Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory,</i> 4th ed. (Addison&#45;Wesley, Reading, MA, 1993).    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445100&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000006&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">7. K.B. Wolf, <i>Rev. Mex. F&iacute;s.</i> <b>49</b> (2003) 465.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445102&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000007&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">8. S. Chandrasekhar, <i>Proc. R. Soc. London A</i> <b>344</b> (1975) 441, reprinted in <i>Selected Papers</i> (Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1991) Vol. 6.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=8445104&pid=S1870-3542200600020001000008&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>      ]]></body><back>
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