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HHaborix replied to the thread Undergrad Why is a Gaussian function used to represent a wave packet?.Nature doesn't really choose a Gaussian, per se, but experimentalists, as in the paper @renormalize shared, can set things up to ensure...
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HHaborix reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Undergrad The equivalent concept of phase change in classical mechanics with
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The phase of the wave function is analogous to the Hamilton-Jacobi function ##S(x,t)## in classical mechanics. If ##S(x,t)## is a... -
HHaborix replied to the thread Undergrad The equivalent concept of phase change in classical mechanics.You're correct. I got muddled up thinking about a ray in terms of real numbers multiplying a vector.
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Not in the usual formulation of non-relativistic QM, where a "quantum state" is a ray in Hilbert space, not a vector. Multiplying a... -
HHaborix replied to the thread Undergrad The equivalent concept of phase change in classical mechanics.The closest parallel I can think to draw is to canonical transformations in classical mechanics. Strictly speaking, a phase change does...