Schrodinger Equation Potential Well Solver

Introduction

The goal was to be able to solve the one dimensional Schrodinger’s equation of a particle in a box with a custom potential. This was done by a numeric approach using the Verlet algorithm below.

$\psi(x_i)=2\psi(x_{i-1})-\psi(x_{i-2})+\psi''(x_{i-1})\Delta x^2$

$\psi''(i) = \psi(i)(V(i) - E)$

Followed by normalization.

$\sum_{i=1}^{i=max} \psi(x_i)^2 \Delta x = C^2$

$\psi_{norm} (x_i)=\dfrac{1}{C} \psi (x_i)$

This one dimensional solution can easily be extended to be multidimensional. For two dimension this works as follows.

$V(x,y)=V(x)+V(y)$

$\Psi(x,y)=\psi(x)\psi(y)$

This project was originally implemented using Maple in the optional course “theoretical Chemisty” in my Bachelor’s.

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The goal was to be able to solve the one dimensional Schrodinger’s equation of a particle in a box with a custom potential. This was done by a numeric approach using the Verlet algorithm. The one dimensional solution was then extended to two dimensions.
https://github.com/lukaswittmann/schrodinger-equation-potential-well
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