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Temporal part of Quantum Wavefunction
I was hoping that someone could give me the more fundamental reason that we take as the temporal part of a quantum wavefunction the function $e^{-i\omega t}$ and not $e^{+i\omega t}$? Clearly ...
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Many-worlds: how often is the split how many are the universes? (And how do you model this mathematically.)
When I read descriptions of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, they say things like "every possible outcome of every event defines or exists in its own history or world", but is this ...
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Why do we consider the evolution (usually in time) of a wave function?
Why do we consider evolution of a wave function and why is the evolution parameter taken as time, in QM.
If we look at a simple wave function $\psi(x,t) = e^{kx - \omega t}$, $x$ is a point in ...
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How isolated must a system be for it's wave function to be considered not collapsed?
As an undergrad I was often confused over people's bafflement with Schodinger's cat thought experiment. It seemed obvious to me that the term "observation" referred to the Geiger counter, not the ...
