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Guessing Harmonic Oscillator Wavefunctions Using Maple, Carl W. David Jan 2009

Guessing Harmonic Oscillator Wavefunctions Using Maple, Carl W. David

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The guessing of eigenfunctions is not trivial at higher quantum numbers, no matter what the system being considered. Instead of guessing, one can employ a symbolic calculus progam (Maple in this case) to aid in the reasoning process.