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No, because the energy of the electron is known and is always quantized.
by fallingfrog 7y ago
No, because the energy of the electron is known and is always quantized.
- tedsanders 7y agoWhen you say this what do you mean? Here are some statements of my own, typed quickly on a phone before I head to work: -Electrons do not in general have quantized energy; only bound electrons have a discrete energy spectrum -Electrons do not necessarily have a single energy; although energy eigenstates form a basis that can describe all states, very often the electron won't be in a pure eigenstate -Single electron models are simplifications; in general, atoms will have multielectron states that are very difficult to write down or reason about; it's deep and non-obvious why single electron models do so well at describing behavior of multielectron wavefunctions