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Acta Physica Sinica

PROPAGATOR AND EXACT WAVE FUNCTION OF THE TIME DEPENDENTLY DAMPED HARMONIC OSCILLATOR

Ling Rui-liang, 常熟高等专科学校物理系,常熟215500

Published Jan 1, 2001• 1 citation
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Abstract

By means of canonical transformation,a direct quantization scheme is found for a harmonic oscillator whose damping coefficient is time-dependent.By adopting the Gaussian-type propagator and Feynman's path integral method,the exact wave function is derived.Some discussions made.
DOI
10.7498/aps.50.1421

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