One-sided sudden expansion of an infinite square well

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A normalized ground state initially supported on is . Expanding the infinite square well to leaves this wavefunction unchanged during an ideal sudden switch. Its overlap with the new ground state is , so the Born rule gives . This differs from ground-state overlap after sudden expansion of a square well with a fixed midpoint, because translation of the new well changes the overlap. Under a fixed final Hamiltonian operator, all final energy eigenstate probabilities remain constant during subsequent unitary time evolution.

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