wavefunction
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wavefunction (plural wavefunctions)
- (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum World, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 41:
- The interpretation of the wavefunction was one of the thorny issues facing the early pioneers of quantum theory.
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Hyponyms of "wavefunction"/"wave function"
- adjoint wave function/adjoint wavefunction
- antisymmetric wave function/antisymmetric wavefunction
- antisymmetrized wave function/antisymmetrized wavefunction
- Dirac wave function/Dirac wavefunction
- electron wave function/electron wavefunction
- hybrid wave function/hybrid wavefunction
- Lamé wave function/Lamé wavefunction
- momentum wave function/momentum wavefunction
- Schrödinger wave function/Schrödinger wavefunction
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notion in quantum mechanics
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