Quantum mechanics with uniform forces
Author(s) -
Mark Andrews
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1943-2909
pISSN - 0002-9505
DOI - 10.1119/1.3481703
Subject(s) - physics , harmonic oscillator , classical mechanics , position (finance) , wave function , simple harmonic motion , quantum , quantum mechanics , harmonic , displacement (psychology) , mechanics , psychology , finance , economics , psychotherapist
For a nonrelativistic particle acted on by a spatially uniform but possibly time-dependent force, or for a harmonic oscillator also subject to such a uniform force, the wave function differs from that without the force only by a spatial displacement and a phase factor. The shifts in position and phase are simply derived from a solution of the classical equations of motion.
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