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What actually is superposition?
What does superposition actually mean? Can something like an atom actually be in two different states at once or do we just not know which state it is in? Also, how can our act of observing something ...
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What is a neutrino state if not a particle?
When reading about the 2015 Nobel prize and how this led to the possibility of the existence of sterile neutrinos I am told that:
"(...) three active neutrinos $\nu_e$, $\nu_\mu$, $\nu_\tau$, are ...
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How is a bound state defined in quantum mechanics?
How is a bound state defined in quantum mechanics for states which are not eigenstates of the Hamiltonian i.e. which do not have definite energies? Can a superposition state like $$\psi(x,t)=\frac{1}{\...
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