Ok let me see if I understood everything correctly. We know that a particle can pass through a classically forbidden region because as Zz posted out on his previous answer on another thread, we can see that the particle interacts with stuff (like magnetic fluctuations inside a barrier) implying...
That's interesting. Seeing that ψ^2 in not nonzero inside classically prohibited regions, could we theoretically detect a particle in a classically prohibited region? If so, why do we always detect it after tunneling. If not, isn't that inconsistent with the idea that ψ(x)^2dx gives us the...
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I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the idea of a particle being in a classically prohibited region. A particle is in a classically prohibited region if its total energy is less than the potential energy at that location. To me, this would seem to imply negative kinetic...