We discuss a q-analogue of the linear harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics, based on a q-extension of the classical Hermite polynomials H n (x), recently introduced by us in [1]. The wave functions in this q-model of the quantum harmonic oscillator possess the continuous orthogonality property on the whole real line R with respect to a positive weight function. A detailed description of the corresponding q-system is carried out.
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