Thanks!
Re:PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum
by prof-dr-ir on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:58PM
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Surely that probability should be i x delta(0) x (-i) x delta(0) so, you know, your everyday squared Dirac delta function.
Re:PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum
by Attrecomet on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:46AM
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I secretly did the integration over space to go from the probability density to the probability, so the deltas are integrated out :P
Doing calculations over text-based comments is so painful that I gloss over a lot, in the expectation that this isn't the right place to talk about anything but vague ideas anyway.
If your wave function at point (0,0,0) were i x delta(0) (i.e. a point-like particle perfectly located at the three-dimensional origin), the probability of finding the particle there isn't i^2, but i x i^* = i x (-i) = 1.