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Muppy
May16-04, 12:57 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>I have a particle subject to a potential\n\nV=x2*y2 (x square * y square)\n\nHow can i find eigenvalues and eigenstates?? Solve Schroedinger equation\nseems very hard...\nthanks\nAndrea\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>I have a particle subject to a potential

V=x2*y2 (x square * y square)

How can i find eigenvalues and eigenstates?? Solve Schroedinger equation
seems very hard...
thanks
Andrea

Patrick Van Esch
May17-04, 05:05 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>\n"Muppy" &lt;nonlodo@libero.it&gt; wrote in message news:&lt;aHqpc.55126\\$Qc.2248087@twister1.libero.it&gt; ...\n&gt; I have a particle subject to a potential\n&gt;\n&gt; V=x2*y2 (x square * y square)\n&gt;\n&gt; How can i find eigenvalues and eigenstates?? Solve Schroedinger equation\n&gt; seems very hard...\n\nDidn\'t try, but what about separation of variables ?\n\npsi(x,y) = xi(x) ksi(y) ?\n\ncheers,\npatrick.\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>"Muppy" <nonlodo@libero.it> wrote in message news:<aHqpc.55126$Qc.2248087@twister1.libero.it>...
> I have a particle subject to a potential
>
> V=x2*y2 (x square * y square)
>
> How can i find eigenvalues and eigenstates?? Solve Schroedinger equation
> seems very hard...

Didn't try, but what about separation of variables ?

\psi(x,y) = \xi(x) ksi(y) ?

cheers,
patrick.