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Quantum-mechanical treatment of a harmonic oscillator has been a well-studied topic from the beginning of the history of quantum mechanics . This topic is a standard subject in classical mechanics as well. In this chapter, first we briefly survey characteristics of a classical harmonic oscillator .
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Hotta, S. (2018). Quantum-Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator. In: Mathematical Physical Chemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7671-8_2
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