written by Wolfgang Christian

The Circular Well model displays the 2D energy eigenstates of a particle trapped in a very deep two-dimensional circular well.  Because the Schrödinger equation for this system is separable into radial and angular differential equations, the solution can be expressed as a product of a Bessel function and and a complex exponential.

The Circular Well model is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the ejs_qm_CircularWell.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.  You can modify this simulation if you have EJS installed by right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open EJS Model" from the pop-up menu item.

• Download ejs_qm_CircularWell.jar - 1775kb Java Archive File

Last Modified June 3, 2014

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The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Circular Well model.  Unzip this archive in your EJS workspace to compile and run this model using EJS.

• Download ejs_qm_CircularWell.zip - 17kb Compressed File

Last Modified November 12, 2009