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The study of vibrations naturally leads to the harmonic oscillator. We will later obtain the harmonic oscillator wavefunctions in dimensionless variables. Our starting point is familiarity with Hermite polynomials, though we will derive the relation of these polynomials to the study of vibrations by demonstrating the solution of the Schrödinger equation.
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Struck, C.W., Fonger, W.H. (1991). Harmonic Oscillator Wavefunctions. In: Understanding Luminescence Spectra and Efficiency Using W p and Related Functions. Inorganic Chemistry Concepts, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48629-6_2
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