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    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...
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    called probability amplitudes. The probability is the square of the absolute value of total probability amplitude, probability = | f ( amplitude ) | 2...
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  • 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...
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    source to a final point, each path with a certain probability amplitude. These probability amplitudes can be represented as a complex number or equivalent...
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  • 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...
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  • mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics, such as state vectors, probability amplitudes, unitary operators, and Hermitian operators, emerge naturally from...
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    probability theory List of probability distributions Probability amplitude – Complex number whose squared absolute value is a probability Probability...
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    associates to each point in space a probability amplitude. Applying the Born rule to these amplitudes gives a probability density function for the position...
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  • Jacobi amplitude of Jacobi elliptic functions Probability amplitude, in quantum mechanics Scattering amplitude, in quantum mechanics Complex amplitude Amplitude...
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    Born rule provides the means to turn these complex probability amplitudes into actual probabilities. In one common form, it says that the squared modulus...
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    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...
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  • saying that probability is equal to the amplitude-squared (really the amplitude times its own complex conjugate). Equivalently, the probability can be written...
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  • 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...
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    the probability amplitude of a given outcome is called its scattering amplitude. According to the principle of unitarity, the sum of the probabilities (the...
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    probability amplitudes, and are both complex numbers. When we measure this qubit in the standard basis, according to the Born rule, the probability of...
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    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...
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  • Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of statistics Pignistic probability Probability amplitude (quantum mechanics) Sunrise problem Bayesian epistemology...
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    {\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...
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    backward along the time axis in Feynman diagrams. The calculation of probability amplitudes in theoretical particle physics requires the use of rather large...
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  • 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...
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  • number's exponent so that the decimal point is in a fixed position Probability amplitude § Normalization A metallurgic process used in annealing Normalization...
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  • : 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...
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    EIT is based on the destructive interference of the transition probability amplitude between atomic states. Closely related to EIT are coherent population...
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    _{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 = ⟨...
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    model a photon going through the interferometer by assigning a probability amplitude to each of the two possible paths: the "lower" path which starts...
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    The complex probability amplitudes are something of a theoretical construct which cannot be directly observed. If the probability amplitudes rotated by...
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    down-conversion Squashed entanglement Stern–Gerlach experiment Ward's probability amplitude Physics portal Overbye, Dennis (10 October 2022). "Black Holes May...
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  • space a complex number called a probability amplitude. Applying the Born rule to these amplitudes gives the probabilities that the electron will be found...
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  • 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...
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  • with the phase of the probability amplitude for each path being determined by the action for the path; the final probability amplitude adds all paths using...
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