“…The Schrödinger equation with the Cornell potential, V (r) = − a r + br , also known as the Coulomb plus linear potential, has received a great deal of attention [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] as an important nonrelativistic model in both particle physics, or more precisely in the context of meson spectroscopy, where it is used to describe systems of quark and antiquark bound states, and in atomic and molecular physics, where it represents a radial Stark effect in hydrogen. Aside from the physical relevance, the solutions of the Schrödinger equation for the Coulomb plus linear potential have been rigorously investigated with a large number of techniques [5,8,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] due to its nontrivial mathematical properties. In addition, this potential has an advantage that leads naturally to two choices of parent Hamiltonian in perturbative treatments, one based on the Coulomb part and the other on the linear term, which can be usefully compared.…”