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Find the momentum-space wave function, (p,t),for a particle in the ground state of the harmonic oscillator. What is the probability (to 2significant digits) that a measurement of p on a particle in this state would yield a value outside the classical range (for the same energy)? Hint: Look in a math table under "Normal Distribution" or "Error Function" for the numerical part-or use Mathematica.

Short Answer

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The momentum space wave function is 0(p,t)=1(m)1/4e-p2/2me-it/2

The probability of the particle is 0.15.

Step by step solution

01

Concept used

Any function (say g(x)) can be expressed in terms of the eigenfunctions fp(x)of the momentum operator, for a functiong(x),

g(x)=-c(p)fp(x)dp

02

Calculation of momentum space wave function

Any function (say g(x)) can be expressed in terms of the eigenfunctions fp(x)of the momentum operator, for a function g(x),

g(x)=-c(p)fp(x)dp=12-c(p)eipx/dp

Where c(p)is the inverse Fourier transform:c(p)=12-g(x)e-ipx/dx=fpg

If gis a wave function (x,t), we can view c(p,t)as the momentum-space wave function, often given the symbol (p,t). That is:(p,t)=12-(x,t)e-ipx/dx

The ground state wave function for the harmonic oscillator:0(x,t)=m1/4e-mx2/2e-it/20(x,t)=m1/4e-mx2/2e-it/2

Let =(m/)1/4and =m/2, thus we get

0(p,t)=e-it/22-e-ipx/e-x2dx ...... (1)

03

Calculate the integral

The value of the integral, first we complete the square of the quadratic equation as:

-e-ipx/he-x2dx=-exp-x2+iphxdx=-exp-x2+iphx+ip2h2+ip2h2dx=-exp-x+ip2h2+ip2h2dx=e(ip/2h)2-exp-x+ip2h2dx

let y=x+ip/2, so dy=dx, thus we get

-eipx/eex2dx=e(ip/2)2-ev2dy

Substitute -ev2dy=in above equation

-e-ipx/he-x2dx=e(im/2hj)2

Substitute into equation (1),

0(p,t)=e-it/22he(ip/2)2

Now substitute with and to get:

0(p,t)=1(m)1/4e-p2/2mhe-it/2 ...... (2)

This is the required momentum space wave function.

04

Calculate the probability that the momentum is outside the classical range

Integrate the modulus squared of the wave function outside the classical range but before we need to find this range, the ground state energy is E0=/2so the maximum ground state momentum is p0=2mE0=m, therefore the classical range is from -mto m, so the probability outside this range is from -to , but since the probability is an even function then, we can just integrate from to and multiply the integral by 2 , as:

Prob=2m0(x,t)2dp

Substitute from equation 2, we get,

Prob=2mme-p2/mdp=1-erf(1)=0.15=0.15

Thus, the probability of measurement of particle is 0.15.

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