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Okay I think I've got it, thank you! I modified the wavefunction with a complex phase factor on each term as in \left|\psi\right\rangle = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left(e^{i\phi_x} \left|x\right\rangle + e^{i\phi_y} \left|y\right\rangle\right) = \dfrac{e^{i\phi_x}}{\sqrt{2}}...

Thank you :) Sure, I'd represent x and y polarisations with \left|x\right\rangle and \left|y\right\rangle respectively. Thus, for linear polarisation at some angle \phi to the x-axis I'd write \left|\psi\right\rangle = \cos\phi \left|x\right\rangle + \sin\phi \left|y\right\rangle. Setting...

Homework Statement The problem is taken from A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics by Townsend, and is stated as follows: The answer given in the back of the book is 0.12, though I have not managed to get this result. Homework Equations Classically, light traveling through a crystal...