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LarryS
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In a paper in Physical Review A, the author discusses a wave function for one particle, Ψ(r,t), where r is the position vector.
He writes "The probability distribution for one-particle detection at a point r is given by
|<r|Ψ >|2 ".
Is that correct? The above expression looks, to me, more like the expectation value for r.
Shouldn't the probability distribution be |<Ψ|Ψ >|2?
Thanks in advance.
He writes "The probability distribution for one-particle detection at a point r is given by
|<r|Ψ >|2 ".
Is that correct? The above expression looks, to me, more like the expectation value for r.
Shouldn't the probability distribution be |<Ψ|Ψ >|2?
Thanks in advance.