3) A particle of mass m in the harmonic oscillator potential is initially described by a...
A particle with mass m is in a one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator potential. At time t = 0 it is described by the state where lo and l) are normalised energy eigenfunctions corresponding to energies E and Ey and b and c are real constants. (a) Find b and c so that (x) is as large as possible. b) Write down the wavefunction of this particle at a time t later c)Caleulate (x) for the particle at time t (d)...
A particle with mass m is in a one dimensional simple harmonic oscillator potential. At timet0 it is described by the superposition state where Vo, 1 and Vz are normalised energy eigenfunctions of the harmonic oscillator potential corresponding to energies Eo, E1 and E2 (a) Show that the wavefunction is normalised (b) If an observation of energy is made, what is the most likely value of energy and with what probability would it be obtained? (c) If the experiment is...
[20 points] A particle in the simple harmonic oscillator potential with angular frequency a is initially in the ground state: c,y, (x) =Yo(x Att = 0 , the angular frequency of the oscillator suddenly doubles: a} → a½-2.4 The initial wave function can be written in terms of the modified potential (denoted with a tilde:~: Recall that the general form of the first few stationary states for the harmonic oscillator are given on page 56 of your text. a. What...
Consider a particle with mass m described by the Hamilton operator for a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator 2 Zm 2 The normalized eigenfunctions for Hare φη (x) with energies E,,-(n + 2) ha. At time t-0 the wavefunction of the particle is given by у(x,0)- (V3іфі (x) + ф3(x)). Now let H' be an operator given by where k is a positive constant. 1) Show that H' is Hermitian. 2) Express H' by the step-operators a+ and a 3) Calculate the...
The most general wave function of a particle in the simple harmonic oscillator potential is: V(x, t) = (x)e-1st/ where and E, are the harmonic oscillator's stationary states and their corresponding energies. (a) Show that the expectation value of position is (hint: use the results of Problem 4): (v) = A cos (wt - ) where the real constants A and o are given by: 1 2 Ae-id-1 " Entichtin Interpret this result, comparing it with the motion of a...
Consider a particle subjected to a harmonic oscillator potential of the form x)m. The allowed values of energy for the simple harmonic oscillator is (a) What is the energy corresponding to the ground state (3 points)? (b) What is the energy separation between the ground state and the first excited state (3 points)? (c) The selection rule allows only those transitions for which the quantum number changes by 1. What is the energy of photon necessary to make the transition...
A particle of mass m is bound by the spherically-symmetric three-dimensional harmonic- oscillator potential energy , and ф are the usual spherical coordinates. (a) In the form given above, why is it clear that the potential energy function V) is (b) For this problem, it will be more convenient to express this spherically-symmetric where r , spherically symmetric? A brief answer is sufficient. potential energy in Cartesian coordinates x, y, and z as physically the same potential energy as the...
For a particle described as a harmonic oscillator, the total energy w given by E,- (n + hy and the potential energy is piven by VG) kw The classical turning points, to are the values of x where the total energy is equal to the potential energy. The ground state wave function of a harc oscillator is . The cost is defined by a = k/?. If we define the variable y as y = x, which of the following...
9.5 A particle of mass m is in the ground state in the harmonic oscillator potential A small perturbation Bx6 is added to this potential (a) What are the units of ?? (b) How small must B be in order for perturbation theory to be valid? (c) Calculate the first-order change in the energy of the particle.
Consider a particle of mass m under the action of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential. The Hamiltonian is given by Knowing that the ground state of the particle at a certain instant is described by the wave function mw 1/4 _mw2 Th / calculate (for the ground state): a) The mean value of the position <x> (2 marks) b) The mean value of the position squared < x2 > (2 marks) c) the mean value of the momentum <p> (2...