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Squaring the states gives . The first peaks at zero; the second has a node there and peaks at . For a centered interval of width , , whereas . Its leading linear term vanishes, but the probability in a finite interval is not exactly zero.
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Ground and first-excited oscillator distributions, and an original Franck-Hertz apparatus and signal schematic
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