wavefunction collapse (English, noun)
expansion: wavefunction collapse (countable and uncountable, plural wavefunction collapses)
Senses:
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: wavefunction collapses
tags: plural