This is a collection of Jupyter and Cadabra notebooks to illustrate quantum mechanics. Work in progress. You can open them in Google Colab by simply clicking the links below, or you can clone this repository and open the files in a local Jupyter installation.
The material here was created for the Mathematical Physics II module at Durham University.
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Sum of energy eigenstates
Show the time-evolution of a sum of two energy eigenstates for a particle in a box. https://colab.research.google.com/github/kpeeters/quantum_notebooks/blob/master/sum_of_eigenstates.ipynb -
One-dimensional free particle Shows the time-evolution of a free Guassian wave packet. https://colab.research.google.com/github/kpeeters/quantum_notebooks/blob/master/one_dimensional_particle.ipynb
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Coherent state of the harmonic oscillator Shows the time-evolution of a coherent state of the harmonic oscillator, and its particle-like behaviour. https://colab.research.google.com/github/kpeeters/quantum_notebooks/blob/master/coherent.ipynb
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Tunneling
Shows animations of a moving Guassian wave packet which tunnels through a finite-size barrier. https://colab.research.google.com/github/kpeeters/quantum_notebooks/blob/master/tunneling.ipynb
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