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The Gel’fand-Levitan Method in the Inverse Scattering Problem

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A wave packet of quantum mechanical particles develops in time according to the Schrodinger equation

$$ I{\partial _t}{\psi _t} = H{\psi _t}. $$

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    Roger G. Newton

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Newton, R.G. (1974). The Gel’fand-Levitan Method in the Inverse Scattering Problem. In: Lavita, J.A., Marchand, JP. (eds) Scattering Theory in Mathematical Physics. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2147-0_10

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