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    I Material Waves and Wave Functions

    A vector field is an assignment of a vector to all the points in a region of space-time, like the classic electric or magnetic fields. The basic quantum fields assign an operator to points of space-time, operators which, when acting on quantum states, increase or decrease the number of field...
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    I Material Waves and Wave Functions

    Well, it is actually the Dirac equation, but the Schroedinger equation (with the spin degree of freedom tacked on) is a good non-relativistic reduction.
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    Show that energy E always exists such that junction conditions have a solution

    Solve the Schroedinger equation in the three regions. You get a term proportional to cos(k*x) inside the well, a term proportional to exp(-q*x) in the region x>W/2 and a term proportional to exp(q*x) in the region x<W/2. Apply symmetry and match values and first derivatives of wave functions at...
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    Equations of motion for Lagrangian of scalar QED

    This looks correct, except that the term in the last line of equation (1) proportional to A*phi should be A^2*phi.. The term involving the 4-divergence of the vector potential can be set to zero by adopting a particular gauge.
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    I Material Waves and Wave Functions

    You are correct. The electron is never detected as a wave - it is always registered as a "detector click", a particle. What is waving is the quantized electron field. The electron is an excitation of that field, as the photon is an excitation of the electromagnetic field. In a given experimental...
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    Continuity Equation for a Dimensionless Harmonic Oscillator

    I assume you mean that you are off by a "term", not by a "factor". You can't be off from zero by a factor. The wave functions are written with a dimensionless normalization, meaning that you are working with a dimensionless displacement. The current operator, however, is written assuming the...
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    I Changes to a spinning skater's angular velocity

    Can we describe what is happening as the skater's angular velocity increases/decreases using F=ma rather than invoking L = constant?
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