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.

• Download qm_measurement.jar - 685kb Java Archive File

Published April 8, 2008
Last Modified May 15, 2008

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