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Discussion of project 2

We are first interested in the solution of the radial part of Schroedinger's equation for one electron. This equation reads -\frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \left ( \frac{1}{r^2} \frac{d}{dr} r^2 \frac{d}{dr} - \frac{l (l + 1)}{r^2} \right )R(r) + V(r) R(r) = E R(r). In our case V(r) is the harmonic oscillator potential (1/2)kr^2 with k=m\omega^2 and E is the energy of the harmonic oscillator in three dimensions. The oscillator frequency is \omega and the energies are E_{nl}= \hbar \omega \left(2n+l+\frac{3}{2}\right), with n=0,1,2,\dots and l=0,1,2,\dots .