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Difference between stationary states, collision states, scattering states, and bound states
A few weeks ago, I was presented one-dimensional systems in my QM class, and of course one-dimensional potentials too. Nonetheless, I'm still a bit unclear about the terminology my professor uses. ...
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Are all bound states normalizeable?
Following Griffiths eq. (2.91) on p. 52 one may define a bound state to be an energy eigenstate
$$H|E\rangle=E|E\rangle\tag{1}$$
with an energy being smaller than the potential far away from the ...
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Differences between eigenstates, bound states and stationary states [closed]
I am not very clear about the differences between eigenstates, bound states and stationary states.
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