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American Journal of Physics

One-dimensional quantum scattering in an eigendifferential basis

Lawrence L. Halcomb, D. J. Diestler

Published May 1, 1984• 3 citations
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Abstract

The one–dimensional problem of a Gaussian wave packet scattering from a square barrier is solved numerically using momentum eigendifferentials, which are normalized superpositions of momentum eigenkets.
DOI
10.1119/1.13651

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