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...

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...

Bohmian mechanics Wave function Wave packet Wave–particle duality Gravitational wave, in relativity theory Relativistic wave equations, wave equations that...

condition for the wave function. The wavefunction is not normalizable for a plane wave, but is for a wave packet. The free particle wave function may be...

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

A trojan wave packet is a wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading. It is part of an artificially created system that consists of a nucleus and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are huge and unpredictable surface...

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

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)...

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

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...

modelling electromagnetic waves as consisting of spatially localized, discrete wave-packets. He called such a wave-packet a light quantum (German: ein...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ) ∝...

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

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...

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...

light. The phase of a wave packet travels at the phase velocity; since phase is not causal, the phase velocity of a wave packet can be faster than light...

sinusoidal component (a sine wave in steady state). Group delay describes the time shift of the envelope of a wave packet, a "pack" or "group" of oscillations...

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...

direction of a wave's energy flow, and the direction that a small wave packet will move, i.e. the direction of the group velocity. For light waves in vacuum...

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...