wavefunction
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English
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[edit ]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.
Hypernyms
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[edit ]- 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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[edit ]notion in quantum mechanics
- Afrikaans: golffunksie
- Arabic: دَالَّة مَوْجِيَّة f (dālla mawjiyya)
- Armenian: ալիքային ֆունկցիա (alikʻayin funkcʻia)
- Asturian: función d'onda f
- Basque: uhin-funtzio
- Belarusian: хвалевая функцыя f (xvaljevaja funkcyja)
- Bengali: তরঙ্গ ফাংশন (toroṅgo phaṅśon)
- Bulgarian: вълнова функция f (vǎlnova funkcija)
- Catalan: funció d'ona f
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: хумла функци (humla funktsi)
- Czech: vlnová funkce f
- Danish: bølgefunktion c
- Dutch: golffunctie (nl) f
- Esperanto: ondfunkcio
- Estonian: lainefunktsioon (et)
- Finnish: aaltofunktio (fi)
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- Galician: función de onda (gl) f
- Georgian: ტალღური ფუნქცია (ṭalɣuri punkcia)
- German: Wellenfunktion f
- Greek: κυματοσυνάρτηση (el) f (kymatosynártisi)
- Hebrew: פונקציית גל
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: hullámfüggvény (hu)
- Icelandic: bylgjufall n
- Indonesian: fungsi gelombang
- Irish: tonnfheidhm
- Italian: funzione d'onda f
- Japanese: 波動関数 (ja) (hadō kansū)
- Kazakh: толқындық функция (tolqyndyq funksiä)
- Korean: 파동함수(波動函數) (padonghamsu)
- Lithuanian: banginė funkcija f
- Macedonian: бранова функција f (branova funkcija)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bølgefunksjon m
- Nynorsk: bølgjefunksjon m
- Persian: تابع موج (tâbe'-e mowj)
- Polish: funkcja falowa f
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- Turkish: dalga fonksiyonu
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- Uzbek: toʻlqin funksiyasi
- Vietnamese: hàm sóng