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The Harmonic Oscillator

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Having his equation well in hand, Schrödinger proceeded to solving it for various important physical systems. We now will consider the first such system, the harmonic oscillator moving along a straight line.

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Sontz, S.B. (2020). The Harmonic Oscillator. In: An Introductory Path to Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40767-4_6

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