Particle in a box - The particle in a box (or the infinite potential well) is a simple idealized system that is completely solved within quantum mechanics. The infinite potential well is a finite sized region in space (the box) with an infinite potential at its boundaries (the walls). A particle experiences no forces while inside the box, but as the walls are 'infinitely high', it is constrained to remain in the box.

Simple Harmonic Oscillator - One of the most important model system in quantum mechanics because a wide variety of physical situations can be reduced to it either exactly or approximately. In particular, a system near an equilibrium configuration can often be described in terms of one or more harmonic oscillators. Furthermore, it is one of the few quantum mechanical systems for which a simple exact solution is known.

Thanks to Mikhail Noginov and Vladimir Gavrilenko for helping with the theory.

Center for Materials Science, Norfolk State University.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Alexander Gavrilenko; Heng Li (2007), "Quantum Bound State," https://nanohub.org/resources/electromat. (DOI: 10.4231/D3R785N7C).

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1. nanoelectronics
2. quantum
3. wavefunction