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In this article we obtained the harmonic oscillator solution for quaternionic quantum mechanics (\(\mathbb {H}\)QM) in the real Hilbert space, both in the analytic method and in the algebraic method. The quaternionic solutions have many additional possibilities if compared to complex quantum mechanics (\(\mathbb {C}\)QM), and thus there are many possible applications to these results in future research.
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Giardino, S. Quaternionic quantum harmonic oscillator. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 136, 120 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01103-w
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