Computation of the Matrix Elements of Quantum Mechanics.
ResearchPublished 1963
The development of numerical methods for each of the three calculations into which the computation of a matrix element separates. Criteria are set up which so govern the numerical methods that large arrays of matrix elements associated with a specified potential are calculated rapidly and with controlled accuracy. The principal device for gaining speed consists of arranging the calculation in such a way that each wave function and each matrix element is advanced on one and the same interval before going on to the next interval; the larger the ratio of the number of matrix elements to the number of wave functions, the more effective is this device
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- Year: 1963
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