QM Measurement Program

APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019

Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.

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QM Measurement Program

written by Wolfgang Christian

The QM Measurement program displays the time evolution of the position-space wave function and can be used to simulate the quantum-mechanical measurements of energy, position, and/or momentum. The default wave function is an equal-mix four-state superposition in the infinite square well. Additional states and other potential energy functions can be specified using the Display | Switch GUI menu item.

QM Measurement 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_measurement.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.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.

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Published: April 8, 2008
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Quantum Physics - Bound State Systems - Foundations and Measurements - General	- Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Learners - Educators - Professional/Practitioners	- application/java	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2008 Wolfgang Christian
Additional information is available.
PACSs:: 01.50.hv; 03.65.-w; 07.05.Tp
Keywords:: OSP, Open Source Physics, energy eigenstates, infinite square well, measure energy, measure momentum, measure position, measurement, quantum mechanics, superposition, wave packets
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created April 10, 2008 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:: July 8, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 1, 2008
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