QM Carpet Program Documents

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QM Carpet Program 

written by Wolfgang Christian

The QM Carpet program displays the time evolution of the position-space wave function and the associated quantum-mechanical space-time diagram, the quantum carpet.  The default wave function is a Gaussian wave packet in an infinite square well.  Additional states and other potential energy functions can be specified using the Display | Switch GUI menu item.  

QM Carpet is one of 18 Open Source Physics programs that model time-dependent quantum mechanics using an energy eigenstate expansion.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the qm_carpet.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.  Other programs provide additional visualizations.  They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Superposition.

Published April 8, 2008
Last Modified May 15, 2008

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Supplemental Documents (2)

QM Carpet Program Documentation 

A pdf document that briefly describes the QM Carpet program. It describes how to use the qm_carpet.jar file and contains short tutorial exercises and explorations for use with the qm_carpet.jar file.

Published April 8, 2008
Last Modified May 12, 2008

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QM Carpet Program Distribution 

The materials distributed in this zip file are in support of the QM Carpet program. This distribution contains the QM Carpet program, documentation and exercises, and additional parameter sets (xml files) for use with the QM Carpet program.

Published April 8, 2008
Last Modified May 15, 2008

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