Timeline for Bound states, scattering states and infinite potentials
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| Sep 14, 2014 at 15:17 | history | edited | Alfred Centauri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2014 at 15:00 | comment | added | Jessica Hansen | (2) the physical (normalizable) unbound states are not eigenstates of the Hamiltonian, i.e., the physical unbound states are not states of definite energy but are, instead, a distribution of energy eigenstates, e.g., a wavepacket. That was the crucial misunderstanding on my part. I had (incorrectly) understood that the wave function of a free particle was non-normalizable in general, not just for particular energy states. | |
| Sep 14, 2014 at 14:58 | vote | accept | Jessica Hansen | ||
| Sep 14, 2014 at 14:55 | vote | accept | Jessica Hansen | ||
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| Sep 14, 2014 at 14:45 | history | answered | Alfred Centauri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |