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Units of the wave function

Johan
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A colleague of mine started to teach an introductory course in wave mechanics and asked me what the units of the wave function in quantum mechanics is. Thus, if we interpret the absolute square of the wave function as a probability density, does it in fact mean that the units of the wave function is per square root of length in the one-dimensional case?

 

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