Abstract
The exact solutions to a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator plus a non-polynomial interaction a x (2) + b x (2)/(1 + c x (2)) (a > 0, c > 0) are given by the confluent Heun functions H (c) (α, β, γ, δ, η;z). The minimum value of the potential well is calculated as [Formula: see text] at [Formula: see text] (|b| > a) for the double-well case (b < 0). We illustrate the wave functions through varying the potential parameters a, b, c and show that they are pulled back to the origin when the potential parameter b increases for given values of a and c. However, we find that the wave peaks are concave to the origin as the parameter |b| is increased.