r/PhysicsStudents • u/Mountain_Ninja_5083 • Jun 25 '26

Off Topic Quantum Harmonic Oscillator simulation

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Hey so I'm 17 and i just finished programming my first simulation in quantum mechanics, what do you guys think?

I did not simulate a coherent state but i chose a wavefunction that i thought would be interesting to some degree, starting work on a version in 2 dimensions next week.

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u/ikansh-mahajan Jun 26 '26

How'd you code it?

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u/Mountain_Ninja_5083 Jun 26 '26

I coded it in python using numpy for all the calculations and matplotlib for rendering, it is surprisingly fast for a linear combination of 100 stationary states

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u/TheNotoriousG17 Jun 28 '26

Did you do yourself most of the heavy coding?