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The Harmonic Oscillator

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The great success of quantum mechanics between the years 1924 and 1927 was its ability to give a qualitatively and  quantitatively satisfactory description of atomic spectra.

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Bongaarts, P. (2015). The Harmonic Oscillator. In: Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09561-5_6

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