Simple Quantum Visualizations Using IDL

Download book Table of Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Stationary States
  3. Quantum Rotations
  4. Quantum Dynamics in One Dimension
  5. Quantum Dynamics in Two Dimensions
  6. Quantum Visualizations
Features
  • Algorithms and programs for computing eigenvalues and eigenstates for 1 and 2 dimensional potentials
  • Programs to display the eigenstates for 1 and 2 dimensional potentials and animations of the transitions between eigenstates.
  • Algorithms and programs for computing the the time-evolution of a wavepacket scattering from 1 and 2 dimensional potentials
  • Programs that produce animations of wavepacket scattering from 1 and 2 dimensional potentials
  • Algorithm and programs for computing the the time-evolution of particle-particle scattering of two 1-dimensional wavepackets
  • Programs that produce animations of wavepacket-wavepacket scattering in 1 dimension
  • Programs include WP2DSURF.PRO, an end-user widget application that allows the user to select from a number of pre-defined potentials in two dimensions and view surface animations of the time-evolution of the probability density. Type WP2DSURF at the IDL command line to launch the application.
Downloads
Simple Quantum Visualizations Using IDL (NIST Special Publication 1098 2009) (3.3 MB)--PDF file of the book.
distribution.zip (1.6 MB)--Contains all of the IDL source code files presented in the book. Unzip this ZIP file into a directory in your IDL path. Note that these programs were developed using IDL 7.0 but should run with IDL 6.0 and higher (though I have not tested them with earlier versions).

You can also download a flyer that I distributed at the Visualize 2009 meeting in Washington, DC, April 15, 2009 (4 MB). It contains a number of examples of quantum dynamics targeted to a wide audience.

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Agreement No. DMR-0454672.

Comments welcome!: robert.dimeo@nist.gov

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