Commonly quoted PF article required.

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In summary: No, as in Quantum Mechanics: A Very Short Introduction by John Polkinghorne.In summary, the author lost all his download articles.
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I lost all my download articles.

One article that has been attached a lot is a QM momentum analysis of a free wave on two slits.

It is a great highly readable article for non professionals.

I am thinking Bill or Peter Donis quote it a lot.

Please, please help me get this article back.

I can't remember author.

Free steak knife for first to link it.
 
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It could be in there somewhere, the article was a single PDF from arix.

Showed how QM produced the double slit pattern with momentum eigenfunctions.

Raised to two steak knives.
 
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That is def the topic and looks like a great paper but not the specific one, I will keep it tho.

Thanks.
 
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Is it the one by Marcella?
 

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dextercioby said:
Is it the one by Marcella?

By golly that's it,

Thank you.

And now eerr about those steak knives...how can I say this.
 
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Argh, and you were so lucky to loose it! :wink:
 
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vanhees71 said:
Argh, and you were so lucky to loose it! :wink:

Why, you don't like the paper??

I think it is a good step between undergraduate level and the main literature.
 
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Well, they don't explain the handling of momentum- and position "eigenfunctions", and particularly in scattering theory (and the double-slit experiment is mathematically a scattering problem) that's the key issue to understand. Momentum and position "eigenfunctions" do NOT represent quantum states of a particle!

I rather recommend to first read the treatment in

A. Sommerfeld, Lectures on Theoretical Physics Vol. 4 (Optics)

There it's treated correctly. The very same mathematics applies to Schrödinger's equation.

Alternatively you can also have a look at the path-integral treatment in Feynman&Hibbs. That's a case, where the path-integral method is really elegant.
 
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Do you have any links please.
 
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The links are the books I mentioned!
 
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Cheers, I was chasing free stuff, I did read a few excerpts. Books are so expensive not many by them without reading them on line first IMO.
 
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houlahound said:
I was chasing free stuff
As in steak knife?
 
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