Which outcome arises when an electron's confinement increases?

💡 Explanation

Increased confinement raises energy eigenvalues of the electron's wave function because the Heisenberg uncertainty principle dictates that position and momentum uncertainties are inversely related. Therefore, momentum uncertainty increases, rather than decreases in zero-point energy, due to confinement potentials.

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