Schrodinger animation 12
Channel: Paul G
Date: 2016-08-30

New! (Dec 2023): Try out an interactive demo at https://github.com/Paul-G2/SchrodingerSandbox .

Numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation, showing a wavepacket scattering off a cylindrical potential barrier.

This is a variation on animation #1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DypaHVO7isY), rendered at a higher resolution. 

The height of the orange surface is the wavefunction amplitude, and the white lines show where the wavefunction phase is zero.

To create this video, the time-dependent Schrodinger equation was solved numerically on a grid, using the code available at 
https://github.com/Paul-G2/TDSE . The numerical results were then rendered with ParaView.