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I think it's to do with the energy carried by the photons themselves - that's the ones which you send out from the detector to the slits to detect whether there are any passing particles. In order to detect which slit the particle has gone through you would need to use a photon with a...

Yes, but in separating the variables for TISE we must presume the potential energy U(x) is time-independent... from my understanding this is the mathematical trick and that's why the solutions to TISE give stationary states only (potential energy independent of time). But most cases in reality...

I'm learning about the Schrödinger equation in one of my uni courses, and we've recently gone past how to solve the time-independent version. That got me wondering if there is a space-independent version of the Schrödinger equation and what it could possibly be used for. I know I'm probably...