File:QHO-Fockstate1-animation-color.gif
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English: Animation of the quantum wave function of a Fock state with n=1 in a Quantum harmonic oscillator. The probability distribution is drawn along the ordinate, while the phase is encoded by color. The Hermite function wave packet is static in time but its quantum phase changes due to vacuum energy. |
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Own work Category:PNG created with Matplotlib#QHO-Fockstate1-animation-color.gif |
Author | Geek3 |
Other versions | QHO-Fockstate1.png |
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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
from math import *
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import animation, colors, colorbar
import numpy as np
from numpy.polynomial.hermite import Hermite
import colorsys
from scipy.interpolate import interp1d
plt.rc('path', snap=False)
plt.rc('mathtext', default='regular')
# image settings
fname = 'QHO-Fockstate1-animation-color'
width, height = 300, 200
ml, mr, mt, mb, mh, mc = 35, 19, 22, 45, 12, 6
x0, x1 = -4, 4
y0, y1 = 0.0, 0.6
nframes = 5 * 7
fps = 20
# physics settings
nfock = 1
omega = 2*pi * 2
def color(phase):
phase1 = ((phase / (2*pi)) % 1 + 1) % 1
hue = (interp1d([0, 1./3, 1.2/3, 0.5, 1], # spread yellow a bit
[0, 1./3, 1.3/3, 0.5, 1])(phase1) + 2./3.) % 1
light = interp1d([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], # adjust lightness
[0.64, 0.5, 0.56, 0.48, 0.75, 0.57, 0.64])(6 * hue)
hls = (hue, light, 1.0) # maximum saturation
rgb = colorsys.hls_to_rgb(*hls)
return rgb
def animate(nframe):
print str(nframe) + ' ',
t = float(nframe) / nframes / 3.0
ax.cla()
ax.grid(True)
ax.axis((x0, x1, y0, y1))
# Definition of Fock-states in terms of Hermite functions:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator
psi_fock = np.eye(1, nfock+1, nfock).flatten()
a_hermite = [psi_fock[n] * pi**-0.25 / sqrt(2.**n*factorial(n))
* e**(-1j * omega * (n+0.5) * t) for n in range(1+nfock)]
# doc: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.polynomial.hermite.Hermite.html
H = Hermite(a_hermite)
x = np.linspace(x0, x1, int(ceil(1+w_px)))
x2 = x - px_w/2.
psi_x = np.exp(-x**2 / 2.0) * H(x)
phi_x = np.angle(np.exp(-(x2)**2 / 2.0) * H(x2))
y = np.abs(psi_x)**2
# plot color filling
for x_, phi_, y_ in zip(x, phi_x, y):
ax.plot([x_, x_], [0, y_], color=color(phi_), lw=2*0.72)
ax.plot(x, y, lw=2, color='black')
ax.set_yticks(ax.get_yticks()[:-1])
# create figure and axes
plt.close('all')
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, figsize=(width/100., height/100.))
bounds = [float(ml)/width, float(mb)/height,
1.0 - float(mr+mc+mh)/width, 1.0 - float(mt)/height]
fig.subplots_adjust(left=bounds[0], bottom=bounds[1],
right=bounds[2], top=bounds[3], hspace=0)
w_px = width - (ml+mr+mh+mc) # plot width in pixels
px_w = float(x1 - x0) / w_px # width of one pixel in plot units
# axes labels
fig.text(0.5 + 0.5 * float(ml-mh-mc-mr)/width, 4./height,
r'$x\ \ [(\hbar/(m\omega))^{1/2}]$', ha='center')
fig.text(5./width, 1.0, '$|\psi|^2$', va='top')
# colorbar for phase
cax = fig.add_axes([1.0 - float(mr+mc)/width, float(mb)/height,
float(mc)/width, 1.0 - float(mb+mt)/height])
cax.yaxis.set_tick_params(length=2)
cmap = colors.ListedColormap([color(phase) for phase in
np.linspace(0, 2*pi, 384, endpoint=False)])
norm = colors.Normalize(0, 2*pi)
cbar = colorbar.ColorbarBase(cax, cmap=cmap, norm=norm,
orientation='vertical', ticks=np.linspace(0, 2*pi, 3))
cax.set_yticklabels(['$0$', r'$\pi$', r'$2\pi$'], rotation=90)
fig.text(1.0 - 10./width, 1.0, '$arg(\psi)$', ha='right', va='top')
plt.sca(ax)
# start animation
anim = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate, frames=nframes)
anim.save(fname + '_.gif', writer='imagemagick', fps=fps)
import os
# compress with gifsicle
commons = 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'
cmd = 'gifsicle -O3 -k256 --careful --comment="' + commons + fname + '.gif"'
cmd += ' < ' + fname + '_.gif > ' + fname + '.gif'
if os.system(cmd) == 0:
os.remove(fname + '_.gif')
else:
print 'warning: gifsicle not found!'
os.remove(fname + '.gif')
os.rename(fname + '_.gif', fname + '.gif')
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