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🧊 Quantum Box: Confinement in Many Dimensions - 2D Heat Map

A quantum particle confined in a box: superpose two energy eigenstates, watch the probability surface beat, fire detections by the Born rule and compare how level counts grow in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions.

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Details

CategoryQuantum Physics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyAdvanced

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for the quantum numbers of states A and B, superposition weight and relative phase, box aspect ratio and size, particle mass, time speed and detection rate; seven presets; drag the detector window or click the map to move it; Measure button samples the Born rule; phase colour toggle.

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⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D heat map of a particle in a rectangular infinite well: superpose any two energy eigenstates, watch the probability density beat at the transition frequency with phase shown as colour, drag a detector window and fire Born-rule detections, and see how level counts grow in one, two and three dimensions.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install