Solution

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For a real potential, the Time-dependent Schrödinger equation and its complex conjugate give
The potential terms cancel. The expression on the right is a total derivative, giving
For the plane wave, and . With zero potential, substitution gives
It is a free-particle momentum eigenstate with momentum , energy and uniform probability flux. On the whole real line it is a generalized state, not a normalized square-integrable wavefunction; wave packets or box normalization give the corresponding physical interpretation.

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