- Crude provisional section ordering of wave function
Status of wavefunctions edit
History, first introduction of concept, modern interpretations
In the postulates of QM edit
Some (not all) of the postulates of QM are: Wavefunction contains all information about system, governed by the SE, wavefunction collapse
Wave functions in nonrelativistic QM edit
Interpretations edit
probability interpretation
mention others, hint a forward reference to the field theoretical formulation
Wave particle duality edit
Intuitive heuristics about the De Broglie relations and wave profile
Position and momentum representations edit
Position and momentum space wavefunctions, Fourier transforms
Spin edit
spin s particle in 3d, 2s+1 complex numbers, or a 2s+1 column vector, wavefunctions as spinors or tensors for particles, occurrence in relativistic QM and QFT
Other observables edit
Many particle systems edit
symmetry (bosons), antisymmetry (fermions), nonsymmetry (distinguishable), The Pauli principle, implications from them
Beyond nonrelativistic QM edit
Relativistic quantum mechanics edit
Field operators in quantum field theory edit
brief discussion of advantages of field operators, point to QFT articles
non relativistic then relativistic field theory
Examples edit
SUMMARIZE
Prototypical examples in physics edit
Potential well, harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom
Chemistry edit
Atomic and molecular orbitals
In particle physics edit
wave function of quarks, leptons
In nuclear physics edit
In condensed matter physics edit
Ontology edit
(use what is in current article)