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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How does the d(x^2-y^2) orbitals not interfere with the px and py orbitals, since they are on the same planes?
gpt
I am unsure what you mean by "interfere". 

The electrons in the atoms are also all interchangeable. I.e., the wave function is symmetric for the exchange of electrons. So in a sense there is interactions there. This is due to the fact that all the orbitals overlap with each other. Orbitals are probability functions defined over all of space, they all "interfere" with each other at all time. 

Finally, let's keep in mind the basic orbitals you learn are simplified in that they look at interactions of the nucleus with a single electron. To calculate more refined orbitals (albeit we do not necessarily change the quamtum numbers associated with those), you have to take into considerations electron-electron interactions, so that is another form of interference you could think about. (But the results of those calculations, and of experimentations is still that electrons lie in orbitals whose wave functions are overlapping, just the shapes are changed somewhat)