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