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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
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2026-10-25
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For the macroscopic
mass
,
λ
=
m
v
h
=
2
(
33
)
6.626
×
1
0
−
34
≃
1.00
×
1
0
−
35
m
.
(1)
The
ideal
fixed-
momentum
expression tends to
infinity
as
v
→
0
. An everyday localized object is not
a
perfectly coherent
momentum eigenstate
, however: its thermal and environmental
momentum uncertainty
remains nonzero, and
decoherence
rapidly suppresses spatially separated coherent alternatives. Merely setting the
mean
velocity
to zero does not prepare an object with
a
macroscopic
coherence length
.
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