American Journal of Physics

Quantum harmonic oscillator revisited: A Fourier transform approach

Sergey A. Ponomarenko

Published Aug 13, 2004• 24 citations

Abstract

I present a Fourier transform approach to the problem of finding the stationary states of a quantum harmonic oscillator. The simplicity of the method may make it a desirable substitute for the rather cumbersome polynomial approach to the problem which is commonly used in the standard graduate quantum mechanics textbooks.

DOI: 10.1119/1.1677395

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