Type: Article
Publication Date: 2021-08-17
Citations: 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ac154b
In a recent paper by Jafarov et al (2020 J. Phys. A 53 485301), a confined model of the non-relativistic quantum harmonic oscillator, where the effective mass and the angular frequency are dependent on the position, was constructed and it was shown that the confinement parameter gets quantized. By using a point canonical transformation starting from the constant-mass Schrödinger equation for the Rosen–Morse II potential, it is shown here that similar results can be easily obtained without quantizing the confinement parameter. In addition, an extension to a confined shifted harmonic oscillator directly follows from the same point canonical transformation.