• Thumbnail for Probability amplitude
    In quantum mechanics, a probability amplitude is a complex number used for describing the behaviour of systems. The square of the modulus of this quantity...
    27 KB (3,513 words) - 20:37, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quantum electrodynamics
    called probability amplitudes. The probability is the square of the absolute value of total probability amplitude, probability = | f ( amplitude ) | 2...
    50 KB (6,629 words) - 00:13, 5 October 2024
  • In quantum physics, the scattering amplitude is the probability amplitude of the outgoing spherical wave relative to the incoming plane wave in a stationary-state...
    6 KB (957 words) - 22:03, 18 October 2024
  • operator is diagonal in this basis. The probability to get a particular measured result depends on the probability amplitude, given by the inner product of the...
    8 KB (1,228 words) - 14:14, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Diffraction grating
    source to a final point, each path with a certain probability amplitude. These probability amplitudes can be represented as a complex number or equivalent...
    49 KB (5,810 words) - 08:14, 26 October 2024
  • mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics, such as state vectors, probability amplitudes, unitary operators, and Hermitian operators, emerge naturally from...
    32 KB (4,944 words) - 23:07, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wave function
    Born rule provides the means to turn these complex probability amplitudes into actual probabilities. In one common form, it says that the squared modulus...
    99 KB (13,547 words) - 19:50, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quantum mechanics
    associates to each point in space a probability amplitude. Applying the Born rule to these amplitudes gives a probability density function for the position...
    99 KB (12,082 words) - 17:48, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Propagator
    quantum field theory, the propagator is a function that specifies the probability amplitude for a particle to travel from one place to another in a given period...
    35 KB (6,207 words) - 21:31, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Probability density function
    probability theory List of probability distributions Probability amplitude – Complex number whose squared absolute value is a probability Probability...
    30 KB (4,938 words) - 11:35, 30 October 2024
  • saying that probability is equal to the amplitude-squared (really the amplitude times its own complex conjugate). Equivalently, the probability can be written...
    18 KB (2,267 words) - 21:41, 13 October 2024
  • Amplitude-shift keying (ASK) is a form of amplitude modulation that represents digital data as variations in the amplitude of a carrier wave. In an ASK...
    9 KB (1,625 words) - 16:30, 23 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Qubit
    probability amplitudes, and are both complex numbers. When we measure this qubit in the standard basis, according to the Born rule, the probability of...
    42 KB (4,895 words) - 14:45, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quantum logic gate
    {\displaystyle v_{1}} are the complex probability amplitudes of the qubit. These values determine the probability of measuring a 0 or a 1, when measuring...
    74 KB (10,114 words) - 17:26, 16 August 2024
  • Jacobi amplitude of Jacobi elliptic functions Probability amplitude, in quantum mechanics Scattering amplitude, in quantum mechanics Complex amplitude Amplitude...
    1 KB (151 words) - 03:06, 10 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Feynman diagram
    backward along the time axis in Feynman diagrams. The calculation of probability amplitudes in theoretical particle physics requires the use of rather large...
    94 KB (16,038 words) - 14:03, 21 October 2024
  • Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of statistics Pignistic probability Probability amplitude (quantum mechanics) Sunrise problem Bayesian epistemology...
    37 KB (4,322 words) - 18:29, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Path integral formulation
    postulates: The probability for an event is given by the squared modulus of a complex number called the "probability amplitude". The probability amplitude is given...
    86 KB (14,267 words) - 21:56, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mach–Zehnder interferometer
    model a photon going through the interferometer by assigning a probability amplitude to each of the two possible paths: the "lower" path which starts...
    18 KB (2,410 words) - 08:28, 20 August 2024
  • x_{k}} ), weighted by a complex probability amplitude e i S / ℏ {\displaystyle e^{iS/\hbar }} . The phase of the amplitude is given by the action divided...
    32 KB (4,084 words) - 12:59, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amplituhedron
    the probability amplitude of a given outcome is called its scattering amplitude. According to the principle of unitarity, the sum of the probabilities (the...
    9 KB (961 words) - 20:48, 17 May 2024
  • space a complex number called a probability amplitude. Applying the Born rule to these amplitudes gives the probabilities that the electron will be found...
    66 KB (8,316 words) - 23:34, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spin-1/2
    The complex probability amplitudes are something of a theoretical construct which cannot be directly observed. If the probability amplitudes rotated by...
    15 KB (2,082 words) - 00:23, 24 September 2024
  • : 110  This is expressed by the phrase off mass shell.: 119  The probability amplitude for a virtual particle to exist tends to be canceled out by destructive...
    22 KB (2,910 words) - 11:52, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetically induced transparency
    EIT is based on the destructive interference of the transition probability amplitude between atomic states. Closely related to EIT are coherent population...
    21 KB (2,395 words) - 13:47, 4 October 2024
  • the Schrödinger equation in Dirac notation weighted by the two probability amplitudes c 0 {\displaystyle c_{0}} and c 1 {\displaystyle c_{1}} that both...
    18 KB (2,469 words) - 00:10, 14 September 2024
  • number's exponent so that the decimal point is in a fixed position Probability amplitude § Normalization A metallurgic process used in annealing Normalization...
    3 KB (433 words) - 14:20, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Franck–Condon principle
    _{i}{\boldsymbol {r}}_{i}+e\sum \limits _{j}Z_{j}{\boldsymbol {R}}_{j}.} The probability amplitude P for the transition between these two states is given by P = ⟨...
    28 KB (3,556 words) - 07:11, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quantum entanglement
    down-conversion Squashed entanglement Stern–Gerlach experiment Ward's probability amplitude Physics portal Overbye, Dennis (10 October 2022). "Black Holes May...
    108 KB (13,191 words) - 22:21, 30 October 2024
  • the probability amplitude of a photon propagating from s to x via an array of j slits. Using a wavefunction representation for probability amplitudes, and...
    16 KB (1,930 words) - 22:53, 3 October 2022