I and my friend were disputing about some weird behaviour of the act of measuring some observables quantities e.g. Energy,position.

But I still don't think what he said is strictly true.

He said" each observable has its own Eigenstate, and when you measure it, the wave function will collapse to that eigenstate , giving its eigenvalue for that particle observable quantity.
However ,I think some observables do share same eigenstate.
i.e. a free particle with zero potential, you can prove this by Solving the TISE.
When you know measure and obtained an exact momentum of a particle of a system, by uncertainty principle, the uncertainty of x will be infinite, then the wave function will be spread everywhere,therefore it has a well define wavelength, thus you have well defined k for wavenumber , hence a well defined energy by p square / 2m.


To conclude, He said :is it true that every time you measure a quantity, it only produces a eigenstate for that particular quantity?ie measure position gives position eigenstate, momentum for momentum eigenstate.

My argument shown above claimed the above is not strictly true:
So my argument is energy and momentum do share same eigenfunction, when potential is zero, Who is correct?

I also mentioned something called "Conjugate variables"
e.g. position and momentum, you can only know one at a time
But I think energy and momentum are not, hence resulting in the reasoning i wrote above! Thanks