Hydrogen ground-state probability beyond the classical turning point

ID: hydrogen-ground-state-probability-beyond-the-classical-turning-point

The nonrelativistic hydrogen ground energy is . Requiring nonnegative classical kinetic energy restricts radius to . Integrating the quantum ground-state radial probability density beyond that radius instead gives . A bound-state tail can therefore have substantial integrated probability outside the classically allowed region without violating energy conservation.

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