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tomdodd4598
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Hey there,
I am familiar with the mathematics of multi-particle systems, but have now moved on to trying to plot them. I was a little ambitious and thought I'd attempt to somehow plot energy eigenfunctions of two particles in a 2-D box. Obviously I immediately ran into the issue that there are actually four coordinates in the wave function rather than two.
Looking for ideas, I quickly came along the Wikipedia article on identical particles, and found these two plots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Symmetricwave2.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asymmetricwave2.png
All that's said about them are that they are the plot of the "(anti)symmetric wave function for a fermionic/bosonic 2-particle state in an infinite square well potential".
I thought that it may be a 1-D box, with the two axes being the positions of the two particles, but if this is indeed a plot of two particles in a 2-D box, what exactly is being plotted?
Thanks in advance.
I am familiar with the mathematics of multi-particle systems, but have now moved on to trying to plot them. I was a little ambitious and thought I'd attempt to somehow plot energy eigenfunctions of two particles in a 2-D box. Obviously I immediately ran into the issue that there are actually four coordinates in the wave function rather than two.
Looking for ideas, I quickly came along the Wikipedia article on identical particles, and found these two plots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Symmetricwave2.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asymmetricwave2.png
All that's said about them are that they are the plot of the "(anti)symmetric wave function for a fermionic/bosonic 2-particle state in an infinite square well potential".
I thought that it may be a 1-D box, with the two axes being the positions of the two particles, but if this is indeed a plot of two particles in a 2-D box, what exactly is being plotted?
Thanks in advance.