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A Confined N-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator

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We compute the energy eigenvalues for the N-dimensional harmonic oscillator confined in an impenetrable spherical cavity. The results show their dependence on the size of the cavity and the space dimension N. The obtained results are compared with those for the free N-dimensional harmonic oscillator, and as a result, the notion of fractional dimensions is pointed out. Finally, we examine the correlation between eigenenergies for confined oscillators in different dimensions.

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Al-Jaber, S.M. A Confined N-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator. Int J Theor Phys 47, 1853–1864 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-007-9630-9

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