Given eigenstates , a coherent state can be expressed as

for any complex number . leads to an oscillating Gaussian probability distribution in white.

• The wavefunction is coloured by its phase.

• The potential is quadratic,

• and the probability density is white.

Move the red dot below to change the inital complex value, where .

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