Ehrenfest calculation and animations

Great page explaining the Ehrenfest Theorem which included both equations and animations. There is a bit of explanation but the main calculations are explained using the code one would need to solve the equation. It's quite technical with the code included but still goes a long way towards explaining what is happening.

From the site:

We first develop a procedure which propagates a one-dimensional wavepacket in space and time. Then we demonstrate the validity of the theorems, which determine the time evolution of position and momentum expectation values. This allows one to investigate the semi-classical limit in which the position and momentum average values satisfy Hamilton's equations of motion.

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