Harmonic Oscillator in an Electric Field
- consider a particle with charge e moving under three dimensional isotropic harmonic potential l
Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V(r)=\frac{1}{2}m{\omega }^2{r}^2} in an electric field Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E=E_{0}(x)} Find the eigen states and eigen values of the patricle
the Hamiltonian of the system is:
we seprate the Hamiltonian (Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle H=H_{x}+H_{y}+H_{z} f} ) where
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Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle H_{z}=\frac{p_{z}^{2}}{2m}+\frac{1}{2}m\omega ^2z^2}
Notice that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle H_{x} ,H_{z}} are identical to the Hamiltonian of the one dimensional harmonic oscillator, so we can write the wave function
, whereFailed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \psi _{2}(y)<\math>, and }
\psi _{3}(z) </math>are the wave functions of the one dimensional harmonic oscillator: