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A global, dynamical formulation of quantum confined systems; pp. 290–293
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Authors
Nuno C. Dias, João N. Prata
Abstract
A brief review of some recent results on the global self-adjoint formulation of systems with boundaries is presented. We concentrate on the 1-dimensional case and obtain a dynamical formulation of quantum confinement.
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