American Journal of Physics

Comment on “Quantum harmonic oscillator revisited: A Fourier transform approach” by S. A. Ponomarenko [Am. J. Phys. 72 (9) 1259–1260 (2004)]

Andreas Engel

Published Aug 30, 2006• 10 citations

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DOI: 10.1119/1.2221343

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