Solution

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The time-independent Schrödinger equation is the energy eigenvalue equation for the Hamiltonian operator:
Here is the reduced Planck constant. A corresponding stationary wavefunction evolves as , which follows by substitution in the Time-dependent Schrödinger equation. Its position probability density is time independent because the time factor has unit modulus. Physical energy eigenstates must also satisfy the system's boundary conditions; for a bound state, wavefunction normalization requires .

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