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The quantum mechanics of a bounded linear harmonic oscillator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. C. Auluck
Affiliation:
University of DelhiIndia

Extract

1. The present paper deals with an enclosed (linear) harmonic oscillator. The usual boundary condition that the wave function vanishes at infinity is here replaced by the condition that the wave function vanishes at the walls of the enclosure. The problem has been treated before (1, 2, 4). However, the present discussion goes much further than that given in the papers cited*.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1945

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