Raising and lowering operators for the Dirac-Woods-Saxon potential in the presence of spin and pseudospin symmetry

Abstract

In the case of spin symmetry and pseudospin symmetry, raising and lowering operators and the bound state solutions of the Dirac equation for the spherically Woods-Saxon potential are presented within the context of Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics. The energy equation and corresponding two-component spinors of the two Dirac particles are obtained in the closed form for arbitrary spin-orbit quantum number k by using the Pekeris approximation. The Hamiltonian hierarchy method and the shape invariance property are used in the calculations.