Re: QM oscillator - a question for experimental verification

Kevin Blake wrote:
>
> It is well known that QM gives a wave structure of the probability
> density for the presence of a quantum oscillator in a box. Has anyone
> checked this?
> I mean has anyone made a straightforward experiment to check if there
> are nodes of zero presence, by example sending a laser beam through
> the nodes?

1) What is an observable? It is psi^2. You won't see "waves." You
should see nodes and antinodes.

2) A literal "particle in a box" does exactly that. Standing waves,
laser modes, microwave conduit... literal electrons confined in
semiconductors.

3) Look up the experiment of dropping ultracryogenic neutrons and
watching them bounce. Their bounce heights were quantized. Neutrons
are fermions, spin 1/2. In a gravitational potetial well their
allowed energy levels must stack.

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