Proceedings of the Physical Society

A comparison of the lower bound formulae of Stevenson and Temple

Mary Walmsley

Published Jul 1, 1967• 9 citations

Abstract

A direct comparison is made between the lower bound formulae of Stevenson and Temple, for the energy eigenvalues of a quantum-mechanical system. It is found that Stevenson's formula is better than that of Temple, which is in contradiction to a statement of Kato.

DOI: 10.1088/0370-1328/91/3/133

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