Relation To The WKB Approximation
The early steps involved in the eikonal approximation in quantum mechanics are very closely related to the WKB approximation. It, like the eikonal approximation, reduces the equations into a differential equation in a single variable. But the difficulty with the WKB approximation is that this variable is described by the trajectory of the particle which, in general, is complicated.
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