Bound state solutions and thermodynamic properties of modified exponential screened plus Yukawa potential

Abstract

In this research paper, the approximate bound state solutions and thermodynamic properties of Schrӧdinger equation with modified exponential screened plus Yukawa potential (MESPYP) were obtained with the help Greene–Aldrich approximation to evaluate the centrifugal term. The Nikiforov–Uvarov (NU) method was used to obtain the analytical solutions. The numerical bound state solutions of five selected diatomic molecules, namely mercury hydride (HgH), zinc hydride (ZnH), cadmium hydride (CdH), hydrogen bromide (HBr) and hydrogen fluoride (HF) molecules were also obtained. We obtained the energy eigenvalues for these molecules using the resulting energy eigenequation and total unnormalized wave function expressed in terms of associated Jacobi polynomial. The resulting energy eigenequation was presented in a closed form and applied to study partition function (Z) and other thermodynamic properties of the system such as vibrational mean energy (U), vibrational specific heat capacity (C), vibrational entropy (S) and vibrational free energy (F). The numerical bound state solutions were obtained from the resulting energy eigenequation for some orbital angular quantum number. The results obtained from the thermodynamic properties are in excellent agreement with the existing literature. All numerical computations were carried out using spectroscopic constants of the selected diatomic molecules with the help of MATLAB 10.0 version. The numerical bound state solutions obtained increases with an increase in quantum state.