Meaning

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  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Kollaps der Wellenfunktion, Zustandsreduktion

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Forms

plural: wavefunction collapses

Synonyms

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state vector collapse

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