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Chapter 10 - Computational Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Shooting method for a square well
Use the shooting method to find the wave function for a particle in a potential well. Uses a search scheme to find ever more accurate values for the energy.
Variational Monte Carlo method
Combines the variational principle with a Monte Carlo method to calculate the wave function of a particle in a Lennard-Jones potential well.
Time dependent wave packet propagation. This version considers a flat potential (V=0 everywhere), but can be modified to study a wave packet incident on a wall or a thin barrier.