You need a source of coherent electrons, which is generally quite expensive and—assuming this is something you want to attempt yourself—out of reach for all but very rich amateurs.
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Thanks for comming back, yar expect it might have been,
but was also interested in how it was done in detail.
Lachlan
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DennisN
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Lucky you that I read this thread. The DSE is quite easy and cheap to do at home; I've tried it myself - check out my PF blog post about it here: https://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=4096 . EDIT: sorry, did not notice that it was the electron version that was asked for . That's definitely not as easy to do as with photons, but I have some link about it, I'll post it when I've found it...
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles.
Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated...
Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/
by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
I don't know why the electrons in atoms are considered in the orbitals while they could be in sates which are superpositions of these orbitals? If electrons are in the superposition of these orbitals their energy expectation value is also constant, and the atom seems to be stable!