Wigner Package

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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Wigner Package

written by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian

The Wigner package is a self-contained file for the teaching of the time evolution and visualization of energy eigenstates and their superpositions in quantum mechanics. The file contains ready-to-run OSP programs and a set of curricular materials. The material focuses on the Wigner quasi-probability distribution for position and momentum.

The Wigner package is an Open Source Physics curricular package written for the teaching of quantum mechanics. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the osp_wigner.jar file will run the package if Java is installed. Other quantum mechanics packages are also available. They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Quantum Mechanics.

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

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Last Modified: May 29, 2008

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Quantum Physics - Bound State Systems - General	- Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional	- Collection - Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2008 Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian
Additional information is available.
Keywords:: OSP, Open Source Physics, Wigner, Wigner function, energy eigenstate, phase space, quantum mechanics, superposition, wave packet
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created May 29, 2008 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:: March 20, 2010 by Mario Belloni
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 1, 2008

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/OSP/items/detail.cfm?ID=7302">Belloni, Mario, and Wolfgang Christian. "Wigner Package." Version 1.0.</a>

AIP Format

M. Belloni and W. Christian, Computer Program WIGNER PACKAGE, Version 1.0 (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7302&DocID=475).

AJP/PRST-PER

M. Belloni and W. Christian, Computer Program WIGNER PACKAGE, Version 1.0 (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7302&DocID=475>.

APA Format

Belloni, M., & Christian, W. (2008). Wigner Package (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 7, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7302&DocID=475

Chicago Format

Belloni, Mario, and Wolfgang Christian. "Wigner Package." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7302&DocID=475 (accessed 7 October 2024).

MLA Format

Belloni, Mario, and Wolfgang Christian. Wigner Package. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 7 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7302&DocID=475>.

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@misc{ Author = "Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian", Title = {Wigner Package}, Month = {May}, Year = {2008} }

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