Smoothing property of the Schrodinger equation

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It is well known that the heat diffusion equation

$$ u_t - u_{xx} = 0 ,\quad u(0, x ) = f(x) , $$

has the smoothing property.

The question is, how about the imaginary equivalent of it, namely the Schrodinger equation?

$$ i u_t = u_{xx} ,\quad u(0, x ) = f(x) . $$

If the initial state $f$ is not derivative at some point, is this property retained by the solution $u$?