Time-Dependent Superposition of Harmonic Oscillator Eigenstates
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Consider a time-dependent superposition of quantum harmonic oscillator eigenstates, , where the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are given by and , respectively. Here is the Hermite polynomial. The Hamiltonian for this system is and its energy expectation value is given by .
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Contributed by: Porscha McRobbie and Eitan Geva (March 2011)
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