phy-4600/book_notes/chap3/Time-Independent Hamiltonian Recipe
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(1) Diagonalize H (find the eigenvalues of Eₙ and eigenvectors |Eₙ〉).
(2) Write |Ψ(0)〉 in terms of the energy eigenstates |Eₙ〉.
(3) Multiple each eigenstate coefficient by exp(-ι Eₙ/ħ t) to get |Ψ(t)〉.
(4) Calculate the probability P(aⱼ) = |〈aⱼ|Ψ(t)〉|²