Ehrenfest theorem asserts that the quantum mechanical motion of a particle when considered in the expectation value sense should agree with classical mechanics in the correspondence limit. An explicit verification of this result is presented in the one‐dimensional case for motion in an infinite potential well (large quantum number limit) and a brief mention is made of the case of a smooth potential (ℏ→0 limit).
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1987
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