User:Maschen/wave function
- 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)