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Student Ability to Distinguish between Superposition States and Mixed States in Quantum Mechanics
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Passante, Gina; Emigh, Paul J.; Shaffer, Peter S. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Superposition gives rise to the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics and is therefore one of the concepts at the heart of quantum mechanics. Although we have found that many students can successfully use the idea of superposition to calculate the probabilities of different measurement outcomes, they are often unable to identify the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Quantum Mechanics, Scientific Concepts