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In Chap. 3 we saw that because of the uncertainty relation, the location x and the momentum p x of an atom cannot be simultaneously measured exactly. The classical well-defined path r(t) of a particle moving with velocity v(t) has to be replaced by the probability
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For more detailled representations of quantum mechanics see, for instance:
A. Messiah: Quantum Mechanics (Dover Publ., Mineola, N.Y. 2000)
C. Cohen-Tannoudji: Quantum Mechanics Vol. I+II, Wiley Interscience 1996
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Demtröder, W. (2010). Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics. In: Atoms, Molecules and Photons. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10298-1_4
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