Question 21

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The Hamiltonian for a quantum harmonic oscillator of mass

in three dimensions is

where

is the angular frequency. The expectation value of

in the first excited state of the oscillator in units of

(rounded off to one decimal place) is

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GATE PH 2019 · Paper 1

Physics · Original paper archive

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Physics
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Numerical answer (NAT)
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