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Double-well tunneling

This exercise allows students to explore one of the coolest phenomena in quantum mechanics: tunneling!

Students will explore how quantum states move between two wells even in cases where a classical particle would only remain in one well.

 

Key words and phrases: double-well potentials, tunneling, time evolution

The PDF for this exercise can be found here.

A zip folder containing the flow file for this exercise can be found here.

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