QM Energy 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 Energy Measurement Program

written by Wolfgang Christian

The QM Energy Measurement program displays the time evolution of the position-space wave function and can be used to simulate the quantum-mechanical measurement of energy. The default wave function is an equal-mix four-state superposition in the infinite square well.

QM Energy 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_e.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	- Lower Undergraduate - Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional	- 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, measurement, quantum mechanics, superposition, wave packets
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created April 9, 2008 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:: July 15, 2011 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 1, 2008
Other Collections:: The Quantum Exchange

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/OSP/items/detail.cfm?ID=6815">Christian, Wolfgang. "QM Energy Measurement Program." Version 1.0.</a>

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W. Christian, Computer Program QM ENERGY MEASUREMENT PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=6815&DocID=296).

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Christian, Wolfgang. QM Energy Measurement Program. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 5 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=6815&DocID=296>.

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