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After a short premise on the mathematical implications arising from the adoption of the harmonic oscillator in the wave-mechanical interpretation of the vibrational energy (i.e. the significance of “singularities” and the need for a “normalization”), we look, in some detail, at the “form” of the potential well (“sampled”, as we will see later, but not determined by the vibrational motion).
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Ottonello, G.A. (2024). The Harmonic Oscillator. In: Quantum Geochemistry. Springer Geochemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21837-8_3
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