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5.12. Excited States and Resonances 119<br />

Figure 5.29: Energy levels in a square well. The ground state is sharp. The excited states can<br />

decay to the ground state by photon emission, and they display a natural line width. States with<br />

positive energy form a continuum.<br />

treating the square well. Consider a particle with mass m in a square well as<br />

shown in Fig. 5.29. It is straightforward to solve the Schrödinger equation for this<br />

problem and to find the allowed energy levels. First consider the case E

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