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[QUOTE="vanhees71, post: 6823439, member: 260864"] As you write yourself, this you cannot achieve. It's simply impossible to describe the quantum state of a macroscopic object in that detail, but that's for sure not necessary to describe your scenario. For that it's sufficient to simply describe the silver atoms alone. The initial state is the vacuum (no silver atoms present). The probability for the occurance of the Ag atoms would be something like $$\langle \Omega \hat{\rho}_1(t_1,\vec{x}_1) \hat{\rho}_2(t_2,\vec{x}_2) \cdots |\Omega \rangle,$$ where ##\hat{\rho}(t,\vec{x})## is the particle-density operator. [/QUOTE]
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