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My book states the following, "when a particle, in a stationary state, is bound the expectation value of its momentum is zero" but it never elaborates why.


I know that $$\int\Psi^*(x,t)\hat{Q}\Psi(x,t)dx$$

but why would that necessarily mean that the expectation value of its momentum is zero?

Robben
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