Back to the Schrödinger equation on a lattice

Efstratios Manousakis

Published Nov 1, 2015• 0 citations

Abstract

Abstract This chapter goes back to the discrete lattice in order to transform the basis to momentum eigenstates. In addition, the chapter takes the continuum limit of space and we recover known relations and the delta function.

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198749349.003.0003

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