<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JAMP</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2327-4352</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/jamp.2020.87109</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JAMP-101914</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Exact Quantized Momentum Eigenvalues and Eigenstates of a General Potential Model
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mahmoud</surname><given-names>Farout</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ahmed</surname><given-names>Bassalat</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sameer</surname><given-names>M. Ikhdair</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>07</day><month>07</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>08</volume><issue>07</issue><fpage>1434</fpage><lpage>1447</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>22,</day>	<month>June</month>	<year>2020</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>28,</day>	<month>July</month>	<year>2020</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>31,</day>	<month>July</month>	<year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  We obtain the quantized momentum eigenvalues, 
  P
  <sub>n</sub>, and the momentum eigenstates for the space-like Schr
  ?dinger equation, the Feinberg-Horodecki equation, with the general potential which is constructed by the temporal counterpart of the spatial form of these potentials. The present work is illustrated with two special cases of the general form: time-dependent Wei-Hua Oscillator and time-dependent Manning-Rosen potential. We also plot the variations of the general molecular potential with its two special cases and their momentum states for few quantized states against the screening parameter. 
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Bound States</kwd><kwd> Feinberg-Horodecki Equation</kwd><kwd> The Time-Dependent General Potential</kwd><kwd> Time-Dependent Wei-Hua Oscillator</kwd><kwd> Time-Dependent</kwd><kwd> Manning-Rosen Potential</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Any physical phenomenon in nature is usually characterized by solving differential equations. The time-dependent Schr&#246;dinger equation represents an example that describes quantum-mechanical phenomena, in which it dictates the dynamics of a quantum system. Solving this differential equation by means of any method results in the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of that Schr&#246;dinger quantum system. However, solving time-dependent Schr&#246;dinger equation analytically is not easy except when the time-dependent potentials are constant, linear and quadratic functions of the coordinates [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref4">4</xref>]. The Feinberg-Horodecki (FH) equation is a space-like counterpart of the Schr&#246;dinger equation which was derived by Horodecki [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref5">5</xref>] from the relativistic Feinberg equation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref6">6</xref>]. This equation has been demonstrated in the possibility of describing biological systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref7">7</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref8">8</xref>] in terms of the time-like supersymmetric quantum mechanics [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref9">9</xref>]. The space-like solutions of the FH equation can be employed to test its relevance in different areas of science including physics, biology and medicine. Molski constructed the space-like coherent states of a time-dependent Morse oscillator [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref7">7</xref>] and an-harmonic oscillator [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref8">8</xref>] on the basis of the FH quantal equation to minimize the uncertainty in the time-energy relation and showed that the results are useful for interpreting the formation of the specific growth patterns during the crystallization process and the growth in biological systems.</p><p>Recently, Bera and Sil found the exact solutions of the FH equation for the time-dependent Wei-Hua oscillator and Manning-Rosen potentials by the Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref10">10</xref>]. In 1957, Deng and Fan [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref11">11</xref>] proposed a potential model for diatomic molecules named as the Deng-Fan oscillator potential. This potential is also known as general Morse potential [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref12">12</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref13">13</xref>] whose analytical expressions for energy levels and wave functions have been derived [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref11">11</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref12">12</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref13">13</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref14">14</xref>] and related to the Manning-Rosen potential [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref15">15</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref16">16</xref>] (also called Eckart potential by some authors, [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref17">17</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref18">18</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref19">19</xref>] is anharmonic potential). It obeys the correct physical boundary conditions at t = 0 and 1. The space-like Deng-Fan potential is qualitatively similar to the Morse potential but has the correct asymptotic behavior when the inter-nuclear distance goes to zero [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref11">11</xref>] and used to describe ro-vibrational energy levels for the diatomic molecules and electromagnetic transitions [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref20">20</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref21">21</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref22">22</xref>]. The exact momentum state solutions of the FH equation with the rotating time-dependent Deng-Fan oscillator potential are presented within the framework of the generalized parametric NU method. The energy eigenvalues and corresponding wave functions are obtained in a closed form [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref23">23</xref>]. The Deng-Fan potential was also studied with relativistic Klien-Gordon equation, where the eigenvalues and the normalized wave functions of spinless particles were obtained [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref24">24</xref>].</p><p>Recently, Altug and Sever have studied the FH equation with time-dependent P&#246;schl-Teller potential and found its space-like coherent states [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref25">25</xref>]. We also studied the solutions of FH equation for time-dependent mass (TDM) harmonic oscillator quantum system. A certain interaction is applied to a time-dependent mass m(t) to provide a particular spectrum of stationary energy. The spectrum related to the Harmonic oscillator potential acting on the TDM stationary state energies is found [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref26">26</xref>]. The exact solutions of FH equation under time-dependent Tietz-Wei Diatomic molecular potential have been obtained. In particular, the quantized momentum eigenvalues and corresponding wave functions are found in the framework of supersymmetric quantum mechanics [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref27">27</xref>]. The spectra of general molecular potential (GMP) are obtained using the asymptotic iteration method within the framework of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. The vibrational partition function is calculated in closed form and used to obtain thermodynamic functions [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref28">28</xref>].</p><p>In new work, we have obtained the quantized momentum solution of the FH equation with combined Kratzer plus screened Coulomb potential using NU method. We constructed three special cases of this general form; the time-dependent modified Kratzer potential, the time-dependent screened Coulomb potential and the time-dependent Coulomb potential [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref29">29</xref>]. And very recently, we solved FH equation with the time-dependent screened Kratzer-Hellmann potential model [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref30">30</xref>]. In both, we obtained the approximated eigensolutions of momentum states and wave functions by means of the NU method.</p><p>The motivation of this work is to apply the Nikiforov-Uvarov method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref31">31</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref32">32</xref>] for the general potential having a certain time-dependence. The momentum eigenvalues, P n , of the FH equation and the space-like coherent eigenvectors are obtained. The rest of this work is organized as follows: the NU method is briefly introduced in Section 2. The exact solution of the FH equation for the time-dependent general molecular potential is solved to obtain its quantized momentum states and eigenfunctions in Section 3. We generate the solutions of a few special potentials mainly found from our general form solution in Section 4. Finally we present our discussions and conclusions.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Exact Solutions of the FH Equation for the Time-Dependent General Potential</title><p>The Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method (see Appendix A) will be applied to find the exact solutions of FH equation for the general molecular potential then the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of two special cases are produced from the results.</p><p>The time-dependent of the general potential is given by [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref33">33</xref>]</p><p>V ( t ) = A − B e − α ( t − t e ) + q ˜ [ C − D e − α ( t − t e ) ] 2 [ 1 − q e − α ( t − t e ) ] 2 , (1)</p><p>where A , B , C , D and α are adjustable real potential parameters. q ˜ and q are dimensionless parameters. t e is the equilibrium time point. The parameters of the potential must satisfy the condition 1 α ln q + t e ≤ 0 to avoid singularity. If the general potential is substituted in FH equation, one obtains</p><p>[ − ℏ 2 2 m c 2 d 2 d t 2 + ( A − B e − α ( t − t e ) + q ˜ [ C − D e − α ( t − t e ) ] 2 [ 1 − q e − α ( t − t e ) ] 2 ) ] ψ n ( t ) = c P n ψ n ( t ) . (2)</p><p>Now, let s = q e − α ( t − t e ) , where s ∈ ( 0 , q e α t e ) , we get</p><p>d 2 ψ n ( s ) d s 2 + 1 − s s ( 1 − s ) d ψ n ( s ) d s + − γ 1 2 − γ 3 s + γ 2 s 2 s 2 ( 1 − s ) 2 ψ n ( s ) = 0 , (3)</p><p>where</p><p>γ 1 2 = 2 m c 2 ℏ 2 α 2 ( A + q ˜ C 2 − c P n ) , (4)</p><p>γ 2 = − 2 m c 2 ℏ 2 α 2 ( q ˜ D 2 q 2 − c P n ) , (5)</p><p>γ 3 = − 2 m c 2 ℏ 2 α 2 ( B q + 2 q ˜ C D q − 2 c P n ) . (6)</p><p>After comparing Equation (3) with Equation (37), one obtains</p><p>τ ˜ ( s ) = 1 − s , (7)</p><p>σ ( s ) = s ( 1 − s ) (8)</p><p>and</p><p>σ ˜ ( s ) = − γ 1 2 − γ 3 s + γ 2 s 2 . (9)</p><p>When these values are substituted in equation</p><p>Π ( s ) = σ ′ − τ ˜ 2 &#177; ( σ ′ − τ ˜ 2 ) 2 − σ ˜ + k σ , (10)</p><p>(see [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref31">31</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref32">32</xref>]), one gets</p><p>Π ( s ) = − s 2 &#177; ( 1 4 − γ 2 − k ) s 2 + ( k + γ 3 ) s + γ 1 2 . (11)</p><p>As mentioned in the NU method, the discriminant under the square root, in Equation (11), has to be zero, so that the expression of Π ( s ) becomes the square root of a polynomial of the first degree. This condition can be written as</p><p>( 1 4 − γ 2 − k ) s 2 + ( k + γ 3 ) s + γ 1 2 = 0. (12)</p><p>After solving this equation, we get</p><p>s = − ( k + γ 3 ) &#177; ( k + γ 3 ) 2 − 4 γ 1 2 ( 1 4 − γ 2 − k ) 2 ( 1 4 − γ 2 − k ) . (13)</p><p>Then, for our purpose we assume that</p><p>( k + γ 3 ) 2 − 4 γ 1 2 ( 1 4 − γ 2 − k ) = 0. (14)</p><p>Arranging this equation and solving it to get an expression for k which is given by the following,</p><p>k &#177; = − γ 3 − 2 γ 1 2 &#177; 2 γ 1 ( 1 R − 1 2 ) , (15)</p><p>where the expression between the parentheses is given by</p><p>1 R − 1 2 = 2 m c 2 ℏ 2 α 2 [ q ˜ ( C − D q ) 2 + A − B q ] + 1 4 . (16)</p><p>where the parameters in this equation must be selected to let R be real and the results have physical meanings. If we substitute k − into Equation (11) we get a possible expression for Π ( s ) , which is given by</p><p>Π ( s ) = γ 1 ( 1 − s ) − s R , (17)</p><p>this solution satisfies the condition that the derivative of τ ( s ) is negative. Therefore, the expression of τ ( s ) which satisfies these conditions can be written as</p><p>τ ( s ) = 1 − s + 2 γ 1 − 2 s ( γ 1 + 1 R ) . (18)</p><p>Now, substituting the values of τ ′ − ( s ) , σ ″ ( s ) , Π − ( s ) and k − into Equations (40) and (41), we obtain</p><p>λ n = 2 m c 2 ℏ 2 α 2 ( B q + 2 q ˜ C D q − 2 A − 2 q ˜ C 2 ) − 2 γ 1 R − 1 R , (19)</p><p>and</p><p>λ = λ n = n ( n + 2 R ) + 2 n γ 1 . (20)</p><p>Now, from Equations (19) and (20), we get the eigenvalues of the quantized momentum as</p><p>P n = 1 c ( A + q ˜ C 2 − α 2 ℏ 2 2 m c 2 [ n ( n + 2 R ) + 1 R − 2 m c 2 α 2 ℏ 2 ( B q + 2 q ˜ C D q − 2 A − 2 q ˜ C 2 ) 2 ( n + 1 R ) ] 2 ) . (21)</p><p>Due to the NU method used in getting the eigenvalues, the polynomial solutions of the hypergeometric function y n ( s ) depend on the weight function ρ ( s ) which can be determined using NU procedure to get</p><p>ρ ( s ) = s 2 γ 1 ( 1 − s ) 2 R − 1 . (22)</p><p>Substituting the result of ρ ( s ) into equation y n (see [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref29">29</xref>]), we get an expression for the wave functions as</p><p>y n ( s ) = A n s − 2 γ 1 ( 1 − s ) − ( 2 R − 1 ) d n d s n [ s n + 2 γ 1 ( 1 − s ) n + 2 R − 1 ] , (23)</p><p>where A n is the normalization constant. Solving Equation (23) gives the final form of the wave function in terms of the Jacobi polynomial P n ( α , β ) as follows,</p><p>y n ( s ) = A n n ! P n ( 2 γ 1 , 2 R − 1 ) ( 1 − 2 s ) . (24)</p><p>Now, substituting Π − ( s ) and σ ( s ) into σ ( s ) = Π ( s ) ϕ n ( s ) ϕ ′ n ( s ) then solving it we obtain</p><p>ϕ n ( s ) = s γ 1 ( 1 − s ) 1 R . (25)</p><p>Substituting Equations (24) and (25) in Equation (38), one obtains,</p><p>ψ n ( s ) = B n s γ 1 ( 1 − s ) 1 R P n ( 2 γ 1 , 2 R − 1 ) ( 1 − 2 s ) , (26)</p><p>where B n is the normalization constant.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Special Cases</title><p>Several potentials were proposed to obtain information about diatomic and polyatomic molecules structures. These potentials are represented by Rosen-Morse or Trigonometric P&#246;schl-Teller potentials which are used for some vibrations of some polyatomic molecules such as NH<sub>3</sub> and SO<sub>2</sub> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref28">28</xref>]. The Tietz-Wei diatomic molecular potential was proposed as an inter-molecular potential and is considered as one of the best potential models which describes the vibrational energy of diatomic molecules [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref34">34</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref35">35</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref36">36</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref37">37</xref>]. In addition, Manning-Rosen and Wei-Hua potentials have been proposed for diatomic molecule structure [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref16">16</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref36">36</xref>] and are discussed here as special cases of the general potential.</p><sec id="s3_1"><title>3.1. Time-Dependent Wei-Hua Oscillator</title><p>A four-parameter potential function was introduced for bond-stretching vibration of diatomic molecules. It may fit the experimental RKR (Rydberg-Klein-Rees) curve more closely than the Morse function, especially when the potential domain extends to near the dissociation limit. The corresponding Schr&#246;dinger equation was solved exactly for zero total angular momentum and approximately for nonzero total angular momentum [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref16">16</xref>]. To get the Wei-Hua potential from the general form of the diatomic molecules potential, parameters with values A = B = 0 , and C = D = 1 are chosen and substituted in (1) to reduce the general form to the special case [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref36">36</xref>],</p><p>V ( t ) = q ˜ ( 1 − e − α ( t − t e ) 1 − q e − α ( t − t e ) ) 2 . (27)</p><p>And by substituting the constants ( A = B = 0 , and C = D = 1 ), which reduces the general molecular formula into Wei-Hua formula, in (21) we get the eigenvalues of the time-dependent HF equation with Wei-Hua potential. The result is as follows</p><p>P n = 1 c ( q ˜ − α 2 ℏ 2 2 m c 2 [ n ( n + 2 R ) + 1 R − 2 m c 2 α 2 ℏ 2 ( 2 q ˜ q − 2 q ˜ ) 2 ( n + 1 R ) ] 2 ) , (28)</p><p>with</p><p>1 R = 1 2 + 2 m c 2 q ˜ ℏ 2 α 2 ( 1 − 1 q ) 2 + 1 4 . (29)</p><p>where α , q ˜ and q must be selected to make R be real. To determine the eigenfunctions associated with the Wei-Hua potential, the same parameters were substituted in (4) which results in</p><p>ψ n ( s ) = B n ( q e − α ( t − t e ) ) γ 1 ( 1 − ( q e − α ( t − t e ) ) ) 1 R P n ( 2 γ 1 , 2 R − 1 ) ( 1 − 2 ( q e − α ( t − t e ) ) ) , (30)</p><p>where</p><p>γ 1 = n ( n + 2 R ) + 1 R − 4 m c 2 q ˜ α 2 ℏ 2 ( 1 q − 1 ) 2 ( n + 1 R ) , (31)</p><p>which agrees with the result obtained in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref10">10</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="s3_2"><title>3.2. Time-Dependent Manning-Rosen Potential</title><p>This potential is used as a mathematical model in describing diatomic molecular vibrations. It is also employed in several branches of physics in studying their bound states and scattering properties. It is well known that Schr&#246;dinger equation can be solved exactly for this potential for s-wave i.e., l = 0 . But, for arbitrary l-states, i.e., l is not equal to 0, the Schr&#246;dinger equation cannot be solved exactly. Therefore, the Schr&#246;dinger equation is solved numerically or approximately using approximation schemes. Some authors used the approximation scheme proposed by Greene and Aldrich [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref38">38</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref39">39</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref40">40</xref>] to study analytically the l ≠ 0 bound states or scattering states of the Schr&#246;dinger or even relativistic wave equations for Manning-Rosen potential. We calculate and find its quantized momentum states and normalized wave functions [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref16">16</xref>].</p><p>By choosing the values of the parameters to be A = C = 0 , q = 1 , B = V 0 α 2 and q ˜ D 2 = α 2 ( β ( β − 1 ) + V 0 ) , and by substituting them in Equation (1) the general potential is reduced to give the Manning-Rosen potential [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref16">16</xref>],</p><p>V ( t ) = − V 0 α 2 e − α ( t − t e ) + α 2 ( β ( β − 1 ) + V 0 ) e − 2 α ( t − t e ) ( 1 − e − α ( t − t e ) ) 2 , (32)</p><p>and by substituting the values of A , C , B , q and q ˜ D 2 in Equation (21) gives the eigenvalues of the FH time dependent equation. The eigenvalues are given by the relation,</p><p>P n = − ℏ 2 α 2 2 m c 3 [ n ( n + 2 R ) + 1 R − 2 m c 2 ( v o α 2 ) ℏ 2 α 2 2 ( n + 1 R ) ] 2 , (33)</p><p>where</p><p>1 R = 1 2 + 2 m c 2 ℏ 2 [ β ( β − 1 ) ] + 1 4 . (34)</p><p>To determine the eigenfunctions associated with the Manning-Rosen potential, the same parameters were substituted in (4) which results in</p><p>ψ n ( s ) = B n ( q e − α ( t − t e ) ) γ 1 ( 1 − ( q e − α ( t − t e ) ) ) 1 R P n ( 2 γ 1 , 2 R − 1 ) ( 1 − 2 ( q e − α ( t − t e ) ) ) , (35)</p><p>where</p><p>γ 1 = n ( n + 2 R ) + 1 R − 2 m c 2 ( v o α 2 ) ℏ 2 α 2 2 ( n + 1 R ) . (36)</p><p>These results agree completely with that obtained in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref10">10</xref>].</p></sec></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Numerical Results and Discussion</title><p>To illustrate the physical meaning of our investigation, we plot some figures of the potentials and the corresponding momentum obtained in each case versus time or the screening parameter by choosing suitable potential parameters. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref> shows a plot of the general molecular potential against the oscillating time for various values of the screening parameter α . For higher values of time, the potential tends to be constant when α takes larger values. In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>, we examine the variations in the FH quantized momentum, for various states, against the screening parameter α . It is noted that as α increases, the momentum of the system increases from the negative region to the positive region. Obviously, the momentums for higher states are close to each other in positive region near α = 0.5 . In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>, it is seen that the quantized momentum of the system decreases monotonically as the potential strength parameter B becomes negative. Therefore, when state n increases, the momentum decreases from positive region to negative region for higher values of α . This behavior is opposite to <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>, when potential strength parameter B is taken to positive.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref> shows the variation of the time-dependent Wei-Hua potential for diatomic molecules, when potential strength parameters A = B = 0 , against time for two values of q. It is clear that decay is fast when q &gt; 0 whereas, decay is slow when q &lt; 0 .</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> plots the quantized momentum states versus the screening parameter α for q &lt; 0 . This indicates that momentum decreases monotonically in the negative region when state increases and hence momentum states scatter away with increasing α . A reverse behavior is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref> when the quantized momentum states are plotted against α for q &gt; 0 . The momentum state increases as n increases in positive region (up to α = 0.3 ). <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref> indicate that the general potential has a limited number of quantized momentum states for this potential well and hence there is a restriction range for the parameter alpha. Obviously, from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>, to increase the number of the quantized momentum states we need to decrease the range of the parameter alpha.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref> shows the time-dependent Manning-Rosen potential for diatomic molecules against oscillating time for two values of screening parameter α . It increases with increasing values of α but the potential remains in the negative region (bound). In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8</xref>, we show the behavior of the quantized momentum states against α for the time-dependent intermolecular Manning-Rosen potential. When the potential strength parameter V 0 &gt; 0 , an increase in state n results in a monotonic decrease in momentum, as α increases. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig9">Figure 9</xref>, a case</p><p>in which V 0 &lt; 0 , shows the same behavior as in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8</xref>, but momentum is strongly more negative than before. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig9">Figure 9</xref> show that there are so many quantized momentum states for the Manning-Rosen potential well and hence no restriction is being placed on the value of alpha.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Conclusion</title><p>We solved the Feinberg-Horodecki (FH) equation for the time-dependent general molecular potential via Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method. We got the exact quantized momentum eigenvalues solution of the FH equation. It is therefore, worth mentioning that the method is elegant and powerful. Our results can be applied in biophysics and other branches of physics. In this paper, we have applied our result for the Wei-Hua and the Manning-Rosen potentials, as special cases of the general molecular potential, for quantized momentum eigenvalues. We find that our analytical results are in good agreement with other findings in literature. The quantized momentum eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenfunctions are obtained exactly for the two exactly solvable problems. We have shown the behaviors of the general molecular potential as well as the two special cases, namely, Wei-Hua and manning-Rosen potentials against screening parameters. Further, taking spectroscopic values for the potential parameters, we plotted the quantized momentum of few states against the screening parameter for diatomic molecules. Our results are good agreements with the energy bound states.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>We thank the Editor and the referees for their valuable comments. This research is funded by Winter School in High Energy Physics in Palestine (WISHEPP). This generous support is greatly appreciated.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.</p></sec><sec id="s8"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Farout, M., Bassalat, A. and Ikhdair, S.M. (2020) Exact Quantized Momentum Eigenvalues and Eigenstates of a General Potential Model. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 8, 1434-1447. https://doi.org/10.4236/jamp.2020.87109</p></sec><sec id="s9"><title>Appendix A: Nikiforov-Uvarov Method</title><p>In this section, we are briefly reviewing the Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref29">29</xref>]. Here we introduce the main points leaving the details into [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref31">31</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref32">32</xref>]. The NU method is usually employed in reduction of the given second-order differential, which we are dealing with, into a general form of a hypergeometric type by using an appropriate coordinate transformation, s = s ( r ) , into the following standard form:</p><p>ψ ″ n ( s ) + τ ˜ ( s ) σ ( s ) ψ ′ n ( s ) + σ ˜ ( s ) σ 2 ( s ) ψ n ( s ) = 0 , (37)</p><p>where σ ( s ) and σ ˜ ( s ) are polynomials, of second-degree or less, and τ ˜ ( s ) is a first-degree polynomial. The wave function takes the form,</p><p>ψ n ( s ) = ϕ n ( s ) y n ( s ) , (38)</p><p>which transforms Equation (37) into a hypergeometric of the form</p><p>σ ( s ) y ″ n ( s ) + τ ( s ) y ′ n ( s ) + λ y n ( s ) = 0, (39)</p><p>where λ in Equation (39) is a parameter defined as,</p><p>λ = λ n = − n τ ′ ( s ) − n ( n − 1 ) 2 σ ″ ( s ) , (40)</p><p>and λ in Equation (39) is also defined as,</p><p>λ = λ n = k + Π ′ ( s ) , (41)</p><p>These two definitions are exploited to calculate the eigenvalues of the system. More details are left to the reader in Ref. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref29">29</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref30">30</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.101914-ref31">31</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="s10"><title>NOTES</title></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.101914-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Park, T.J. 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