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Rectangular-aperture momentum variance

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A normalized hard rectangular spatial wavefunction has a sinc-squared momentum density. Its central lobe has finite first-zero width h/d, but its second momentum moment diverges. Thus that diffraction width is not a finite rms uncertainty. Smooth-edge states can have finite moments and satisfy the usual uncertainty inequality without this idealization.

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