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American Journal of Physics

Integral equations and the simple harmonic oscillator

Gerardo Muñoz

Published Mar 1, 1998• 12 citations
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Abstract

The energy eigenstates for the simple harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics are found through the solution of an integral equation.
DOI
10.1119/1.18855

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