English Explanatory Dictionary

wavefunction collapse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon in which a wavefunction — initially in a superposition of several different possible eigenstates — appears to reduce to a single one of those states after interaction with an observer: the reduction of the physical possibilities into a single possibility as seen by an observer.

Word forms

wavefunction collapse wavefunction collapses

Synonyms

state vector collapse

Related words

measurement problem quantum measurement problem uncertainty principle
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