PX262 - F3 - 3D harmonic oscillator
- the potential energy operator:where, are effective spring constants in the respective directions
- solving the time-independent schrödinger equation by separation of variables:
- dividing by and grouping terms with like coordinates:
- this can be split into three 1D harmonic oscillator equations, with three quantum numbers,
- the energy eigenstates are:where, is related to the spring constant,
- the wavefunctions are:where, for
- it can be observed that non-different values will lead to degenerate systems