Which phenomenon causes spreading of electron wave functions beyond well-defined quantum dot boundaries at room temperature?

💡 Explanation

When temperature rises, the thermal de Broglie wavelength, which defines the spatial extent of the electron's probability distribution, becomes longer because electrons gain thermal energy, broadening the wave functions beyond the quantum dot. Therefore broadening occurs, rather than decoherence or collapse which relate to different, measurement-related processes.

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