The boson expansion method is applied to find the spectrum of a q-deformed harmonic oscillator. We use two different boson expansions, each of them including a deformation parameter, defined in terms of exponential and logarithmic functionals. The resulting Hamiltonians are bilinear forms of the transformed operators. Physical effects resulting from the deformation of the generators of the algebra are studied by comparing known finite-range potentials and the effective potentials obtained for each of the considered Hamiltonians.

• Received 30 November 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.72.014305