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In this manuscript a short review on the most popular numerical techniques in Quantum mechanics used to determine properties of the resonant states is presented. Some common ambiguities arising when theoretical calculations are compared with the experimental data are also highlighted.
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In preparing this manuscript I have benefited from the grant of French CNRS/IN2P3 for a theory project “Neutron-rich light unstable nuclei”. I was also granted access to the HPC resources of TGCC/IDRIS under the allocation A0110506006 made by GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif). Part of this manuscript has been prepared during the program Living Near Unitarity at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of Santa Barbara (California) is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958.
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Lazauskas, R. Numerical Aspects of Resonant States in Quantum Mechanics. Few-Body Syst 64, 24 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-023-01808-x
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