spatial wave function
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A separable wavefunction times e^(iEt/ hbar), which is thus a function of only space and not time.
- Ψ( bold r_1, bold r_2,t)=ψ( bold r_1, bold r_2)e, where the spatial wave function (ψ) satisfies the time-independent Schrödinger equation: ...2005, David J. Griffiths: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed. Pearson Education, Inc. For time-independent potentials, we obtain a complete set of solutions by separation of variables