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← ScienceWhich risk significantly increases when iterative quantum wave function calculations exceed the Hamiltonian operator's limits?
A)System loses spectral normalization
B)Spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair production
C)Calculation exhibits numerical divergence✓
D)Quantum locking becomes irreversible
💡 Explanation
Numerical divergence occurs because exceeding the defined limits during the iterative perturbation method leads to unbounded error accumulation, therefore computations fail by runaway divergence, rather than converging; proper orthonormalisation prevents this risk.
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