wave function in English

noun
1
a function that satisfies a wave equation and describes the properties of a wave.
The bizarre quantum-mechanical ‘photon’ is described by a wave function that basically can give us probabilities that the photon will hit any point on your detector.

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1. I have a doubt regarding the Antisymmetry in the wave function of fermions.The Antisymmetry is in the complete wave function or it is in the spin? Menu

2. Projected UHF (PUHF) annihilates all spin contaminants from the self-consistent UHF wave function.

3. 26 If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate.

4. The Laguerre function and the radial Coulomb wave function are defined by their recursion relations.

5. More generally, the normal concept of a Schrödinger probability wave function cannot be applied to photons.

6. He would try to figure out what the quantum wave function of this huge number of atoms looked like.

7. Ironically, Max Born's probabilistic interpretation of the wave function was inspired by Einstein's later work searching for a more complete theory.

8. Interpretation of values of a wave function as the probability amplitude is a pillar of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

9. Apply an Anharmonic wave function which is more appropriate for describing the distribution of nuclear probability on an Anharmonic potential energy surface

10. Whether the wave function is symmetric or Antisymmetric under such operations gives you insight into whether two particles can occupy the same quantum state

11. Furthermore, Antisymmetry cannot be given physical explanation as wave function only considered to be an abstract entity that does not represent anything physically real

12. The implication of that is that the wave function has to go to zero, it has to vanish when the helium atoms touch each other.

13. So you may wonder, if your boyfriend were to ejaculate while his penis-wave-function is penetrating multiple slits simultaneously, how many ladies could he potentially fertilise?

14. On an average adjusted day, a solar cell -- because the sun's moving across the sky, the solar cell is going down with a sine wave function of performance at the off-axis angles.

15. ‘However in this picture, the warping of the Brane causes the the graviton to become bound to our Brane, so that the graviton wave function falls away very rapidly away in the direction of the extra dimension.’

16. Pauli's exclusion principle Up: Quantum Mechanics of Atoms Previous: Many-electron atoms Symmetric / Antisymmetric wave functions We have to construct the wave function for a system of identical particles so that it reflects the requirement that the particles are indistinguishable from each other.

17. Therefore the signed Curvature defined by the double derivative of the wave function would have this sign problem as mentioned with the kinetic energy, but taking the absolute value - which do fix this - leaves us with the very simple relation that the greater Curvature increases the kinetic energy.