wavefunction
See also: wave function
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Etymology
From wave + functionCategory:English compound terms#WAVEFUNCTION.
Pronunciation
Noun
wavefunction (plural wavefunctions)Category:English lemmas#WAVEFUNCTIONCategory:English nouns#WAVEFUNCTIONCategory:English countable nouns#WAVEFUNCTIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WAVEFUNCTIONCategory:Pages with entries#WAVEFUNCTIONCategory:Pages with 1 entry#WAVEFUNCTION
- (physicsCategory:en:Physics#WAVEFUNCTION) 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. Category:en:Functions#WAVEFUNCTION
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#WAVEFUNCTION
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
notion in quantum mechanics
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