In physics, a wave packet (also known as a wave train or wave group) is a short burst of localized wave action that travels as a unit, outlined by an...

Tollmien–Schlichting wave, in fluid dynamics Wind wave Bloch's theorem Matter wave Pilot wave theory, in Bohmian mechanics Wave function Wave packet Wave–particle...

Using wave packets, however, the states can be expressed as functions that are normalizable. Using the Fourier inversion theorem, the free particle wave function...

Localized wave packets, "bursts" of wave action where each wave packet travels as a unit, find application in many fields of physics. A wave packet has an...

In physics, a trojan wave packet is a wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading. It is part of an artificially created system that consists of...

equation describe their behavior. The probability of transmission of a wave packet through a barrier decreases exponentially with the barrier height, the...

of waves with a quiescent center appears in the water, also known as a capillary wave. The expanding ring of waves is the wave group or wave packet, within...

wave, assuming an initial Gaussian wave packet. Darwin showed that at time t {\displaystyle t} later the position x {\displaystyle x} of the packet traveling...

rotate the wave packet about the y {\displaystyle y} and x {\displaystyle x} axes, respectively, increase the temporal width of the wave packet (in addition...

A Spacetime wave packet is a spatial-temporal light structure with a one-to-one correlation between spatial and temporal frequencies. In particular, their...

not normalizable quantum states. Instead, we can consider a Gaussian wave packet: ψ ( x , 0 ) = 1 π a 4 e − x 2 2 a {\displaystyle \psi (x,0)={\frac {1}{\sqrt[{4}]{\pi...

particle being where the wave function is large. This was shown to be incompatible with the elastic scattering of a wave packet (representing a particle)...

position (with slight uncertainty). The center position of this wave packet changes as the wave propagates, moving through the crystal at the velocity v given...

mathematics and physics, a soliton is a nonlinear, self-reinforcing, localized wave packet that is strongly stable, in that it preserves its shape while propagating...

Apart from a single one, the rogue wave may be part of a wave packet consisting of a few rogue waves. Such rogue wave groups have been observed in nature...

be essentially anywhere along the wave packet. On the other hand, consider a wave function that is a sum of many waves, which we may write as ψ ( x ) ∝...

speed at which a wave packet travels) is given by c g = d ω d k , {\displaystyle c_{g}={\frac {d\omega }{dk}},} and thus for a gravity wave, c g = 1 2 g k...

depth contours, non-breaking waves will increase in wave height as the wave packet enters shallower water. This is particularly evident for tsunamis as...

Dispersion occurs when sinusoidal waves of different wavelengths have different propagation velocities, so that a wave packet of mixed wavelengths tends to...

Copenhagen to the present day". arXiv:quant-ph/0210152. G. Jaeger (2017). ""Wave-Packet Reduction" and the Quantum Character of the Actualization of Potentia"...

emit their own electromagnetic waves which interact with the original light. The resulting "combined" wave has wave packets that pass an observer at a slower...

This is a list of wave topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...

any sort of wave packet implies uncertainty in the wave frequency and wavelength, since a spread of frequencies is needed to create the packet itself. In...

offset modulation Spectrum analyzer Waveform monitor Waveform viewer Wave packet "Waveform Definition". techterms.com. Retrieved 2015-12-09. David Crecraft...

freely-propagating internal wave packet, the direction of propagation of energy (group velocity) is perpendicular to the direction of propagation of wave crests and troughs...

behavior and excite a wave packet of which the energy agrees with fluid theory. The figure shows the energy density of a wave packet traveling at the group...

The wave equation is a second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields such as mechanical waves (e...

statistical similarity of a field, such as an electromagnetic field or quantum wave packet, at different points in space or time. Coherence controls the visibility...

physical solutions of linear systems are linear Wave packet – Short "burst" or "envelope" of restricted wave action that travels as a unit Messiah, Albert...

and later by Erwin Schrödinger in 1930 as a result of analysis of the wave packet solutions of the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons in free space...