Consider an electron bound inside a quantum harmonic oscillator potential. What is the wavelength of the photon absorbed if the electrons makes a transition from the ground state with energy 0.4 eV to the fourth excited state

Consider an electron bound inside a quantum harmonic oscillator potential. What is the wavelength of the photon absorbed if the electrons makes a transition from the ground state with energy 0.4 eV to the fourth excited state

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Chapter7: Quantum Mechanics

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Problem 61P: When a quantum harmonic oscillator makes a transition from the (n+1) state to the n state and emits...

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