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eigenstate en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂óyḱe Proto-Germanic *aiganą Proto-Germanic *aiganaz Proto-West Germanic *aigan Old High German eigan Middle High German eigen German eigenbor. English eigen- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state English eigenstate From eigen- + state.

Meanings

1. A dynamic quantum mechanical state whose wave function is an eigenvector that corresponds to a physical quantity.
   • Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small. 1987, PDMS and Clusters, page 125:
   • In all quantum theories, basis vectors (which are typically eigenstates) are abstractions of the unit basis vectors along the 3D axes. A general state is a vector sum of certain amounts of each basis vector state. 2013, Robert D. Klauber, Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory, 2nd edition, Fairfield, IA: Sandtrove Press, published 2018, →ISBN, §3.11.4, page 68:

Forms

Holonyms

general state

Relateds

eigendecomposition · eigensystem · eigenbrain · eigentheory · eigengene · eigen decomposition · eigenmode · eigenvalue · eigenhead · eigenspace · eigenspinor · eigenpair · eigenfunction · eigenface · eigenvector · eigenbasis

Translations (6)

lt tikrinė būsena (dynamic quantum mechanical state) · da egentilstand (dynamic quantum mechanical state) · it autostato (dynamic quantum mechanical state) · pl stan własny (dynamic quantum mechanical state) · lt grynoji būsena (dynamic quantum mechanical state) · pt estado próprio (dynamic quantum mechanical state)