Decay of the Charged Harmonic Oscillator
Date
1995
Authors
Sami M. Al-Jaber
Walter C. Henneberger
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Abstract
We apply the van Kampen-Steinwedel principal axis transformation to the problem of finding time-dependent probability distributions for decaying states of the harmonic oscillator. The result lends itself easily to computer simulation. Results for the decay of levels 1,2, and 15 are given.