[Maxima-discuss] qm-maxima package

[ehm <eri...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I'm announcing the availability of the qm-maxima package for performing
quantum mechanical calculations in a finite dimensional Hilbert space.
The package is located on my Github site: 
https://github.com/QMeqGR/qm-maxima

Thanks to Robert Dodier and Barton Willis for their contributions that
have greatly improved the package.

I've expanded the functionality considerably since I first posted about
the package here. It is geared toward undergrad and graduate students
learning QM. The pdf doc is nearing 30 pages and gives lots of detail
on how the package works and how to use it. Using the package, I can
solve probably 60% of the problems I assign in my undergraduate quantum
class.

I bring it up now because I submitted an abstract to the American
Association of Physics Teachers (AATP) meeting scheduled for Jan 2025
to present the package. I'll have a 12 minute talk and I plan to spend
about 3 slides on Maxima itself before talking about my package. (There
are a few things I wanted to bring up with everyone before I put my
Maxima slides together, but I'll post about that separately.)

So if any of you are interested in playing with the package, or just
looking through the examples given in the docs, I would appreciate any
feedback!

Best regards,
Eric