• In quantum mechanics, the total angular momentum quantum number parametrises the total angular momentum of a given particle, by combining its orbital angular...
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  • In quantum mechanics, the angular momentum operator is one of several related operators analogous to classical angular momentum. The angular momentum operator...
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  • magnetic quantum number is a quantum number used to distinguish quantum states of an electron or other particle according to its angular momentum along a...
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    In quantum mechanics, the azimuthal quantum number ℓ is a quantum number for an atomic orbital that determines its orbital angular momentum and describes...
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  • In quantum mechanics, angular momentum coupling is the procedure of constructing eigenstates of total angular momentum out of eigenstates of separate...
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  • chemistry, the spin quantum number is a quantum number (designated s) that describes the intrinsic angular momentum (or spin angular momentum, or simply spin)...
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    orbital angular momentum and spin. Thus another set of quantum numbers should be used. This set includes The total angular momentum quantum number: j = |ℓ...
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    because it is a conserved quantity – the total angular momentum of a closed system remains constant. Angular momentum has both a direction and a magnitude...
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    Hund's rules (category Quantum chemistry)
    multiplicity, the term with the largest value of the total orbital angular momentum quantum number  L {\displaystyle L\,} has the lowest energy. For a...
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  • In quantum mechanics and its applications to quantum many-particle systems, notably quantum chemistry, angular momentum diagrams, or more accurately from...
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  • magnitude of spin angular momentum, though its direction may change. These are indicated by assigning the particle a spin quantum number.: 183–184  The SI...
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  • The orbital angular momentum of light (OAM) is the component of angular momentum of a light beam that is dependent on the field spatial distribution, and...
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  • Term symbol (category Quantum chemistry)
    a term symbol is an abbreviated description of the total spin and orbital angular momentum quantum numbers of the electrons in a multi-electron atom....
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    The total angular momentum (total angular momentum quantum number J) of a particle is therefore the combination of intrinsic angular momentum (spin)...
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  • Multiplicity (chemistry) (category Quantum chemistry)
    spectroscopy and quantum chemistry, the multiplicity of an energy level is defined as 2S+1, where S is the total spin angular momentum. States with multiplicity...
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  • C parity (category Quantum mechanics)
    where S is the total spin quantum number, L the total orbital momentum quantum number and J the total angular momentum quantum number. Example: the positronium...
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  • Clebsch–Gordan coefficients (category Quantum mechanics)
    numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an...
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  • Hydrogen-like atom (category Quantum mechanics)
    different angular momentum, where l (a non-negative integer) is the quantum number of the orbital angular momentum. The magnetic quantum number m (satisfying...
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  • summarizes equations in the theory of quantum mechanics. A fundamental physical constant occurring in quantum mechanics is the Planck constant, h. A...
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  • called the principal quantum number, and h is the Planck constant. This formula is not correct in quantum mechanics as the angular momentum magnitude is described...
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    The total angular momentum (quantum number J) of a particle is the combination of the two intrinsic angular momentums (spin) and the orbital angular momentum...
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  • total angular momentum quantum number) 2. Δ M J = 0 , ± 1 {\displaystyle \Delta M_{J}=0,\pm 1} ( M J {\displaystyle M_{J}} : projection of the total angular...
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    Hydrogen atom (category Quantum models)
    to the atom's total energy. Note that the maximum value of the angular momentum quantum number is limited by the principal quantum number: it can run only...
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  • Ladder operator (category Quantum mechanics)
    applications of ladder operators in quantum mechanics are in the formalisms of the quantum harmonic oscillator and angular momentum. There is a relationship between...
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  • proportional to the total angular momentum quantum number (J or F) of the sub-level with the larger of their total angular momentum value (J or F). The rule...
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  • Selection rule (category Quantum mechanics)
    is the total angular momentum,   L   {\displaystyle ~L~} is the azimuthal quantum number,   S   {\displaystyle ~S~} is the spin quantum number, and  ...
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  • the total angular momentum should be restricted in the same way as the two-dimensional rotator. The two quantum conditions restrict the total angular momentum...
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    can carry quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM) projected along the direction of propagation. This orbital angular momentum corresponds to helical wavefronts...
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    {\mathbf {S} }}\right)} However, unlike orbital angular momentum in which the z-projection quantum number ℓ can only take positive or negative integer values...
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  • the five quantum numbers: n {\displaystyle n} (the "principal quantum number"), j {\displaystyle j} (the "total angular momentum quantum number"), ℓ {\displaystyle...
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