Harmonic Oscillator: Operator Method

Charles E. Burkhardt, Jacob J. Leventhal

Surarit Pepore

The initial value problem method is formulated to calculate the propagator for time- dependent harmonic oscillators. The method is based on finding the initial position operator from Heisenberg equations. The investigated models in this paper are the damped harmonic oscillator, the harmonic oscillator with strongly pulsating mass, and the harmonic oscillator with mass growing with time. The comparison of the initial value problem method with Feynman path integral and Schwinger method is also described.

Alto Osada, Rekishu Yamazaki, Atsushi Noguchi

Fuzi Marati Sholihah, Suparmi Suparmi, Viska Inda Variani

Solution of the harmonic oscillator equation has a goal to get the energy levels of particles moving harmonic. The energy spectrums of one dimensional harmonic oscillator are analyzed by 3 methods: path integral, hypergeometry and operator. Analysis of the energy spectrum by path integral method is examined with Schrodinger equation. Analysis of the energy spectrum by operator method is examined by Hamiltonian in operator. Analysis of harmonic oscillator energy by 3 methods: path integral, hypergeometry and operator are getting same results 𝐸 = ℏ𝜔 (𝑛 + 1 2)

Reinhold A. Bertlmann, Nicolai Friis

Abstract We consider the time-independent Schrödinger equation for the harmonic oscillator potential and determine its bound states and energy levels in one spatial dimension using two approaches: the algebraic and the analytic method. Using the former, we introduce ladder operators: the annihilation and creation operators, as well as the occupation-number operator, and determine the ground state of the harmonic oscillator to be a Gaussian wave packet, while the latter method yields the general bound state solutions in terms of the Hermite polynomials. We further discuss the zero-point energy and uncertainty relation for the quantum harmonic oscillator and make a comparison to the classical harmonic oscillator. Finally, we examine the three-dimensional harmonic oscillator, which leads us to the description of systems with multiple degrees of freedom via the tensor product

Shi‐Hai Dong