Semicircular Potential Well
In quantum mechanics, the case of a particle in a one-dimensional ring is similar to the particle in a box. The particle follows the path of a semicircle from to where it cannot escape, because the potential from to is infinite. Instead there is total reflection, meaning the particle bounces back and forth between to . The Schrödinger equation for a free particle which is restricted to a semicircle (technically, whose configuration space is the circle ) is
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