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The WKB method, named for Gregor Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin, gives an approximation to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian operator \(\hat{H}\) in one dimension.
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Hall, B.C. (2013). The WKB Approximation. In: Quantum Theory for Mathematicians. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 267. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7116-5_15
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