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In the first chapter, we described an interference experiment of atoms which, as we have understood, is both a wave and a probabilistic phenomenon.
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The proof can be found in R.P. Feynman’s Thesis Ph.D. Princeton University, 1942; See R.P. Feynman and A.R. Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals McGraw-Hill, New York, p. 96–100; There is a direct derivation in J.-L. Basdevant and J. Dalibard, Quantum Mechanics, Chap. 2, Sect. 6, 2005.
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Basdevant, JL. (2016). Wave Function, Schrödinger Equation. In: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43479-7_3
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