%0 Journal Article %T The Heisenberg oscillator %A V¨¦ronique Fischer %J Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences %@ 1664-3615 %D 2012 %I Springer %R 10.1007/s13373-012-0021-z %X In this short note, we determine the spectrum of the Heisenberg oscillator which is the operator defined as $L+|x|^2+|y|^2$ on the Heisenberg group $H_1=\mathbb{ R} ^2_{x,y}\times \mathbb{ R} $ where L stands for the positive sublaplacian. %K Nilpotent Lie groups %K Harmonic oscillator %K Representation of nilpotent Lie groups %U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13373-012-0021-z