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)