Glossary of elementary quantum mechanics

This is a glossary for the terminology often encountered in undergraduate quantum mechanics courses.Cautions: In this situation, the SE is given by the formi ℏααααααα ⟩
Quantum mechanicsSchrödinger equationIntroductionHistoryClassical mechanicsOld quantum theoryBra–ket notationHamiltonianInterferenceComplementarityDecoherenceEntanglementEnergy levelMeasurementNonlocalityQuantum numberSuperpositionSymmetryTunnellingUncertaintyWave functionCollapseBell's inequalityCHSH inequalityDavisson–GermerDouble-slitElitzur–VaidmanFranck–HertzLeggett inequalityLeggett–Garg inequalityMach–ZehnderPopperQuantum eraserDelayed-choiceSchrödinger's catStern–GerlachWheeler's delayed-choiceOverviewHeisenbergInteractionMatrixPhase-spaceSchrödingerSum-over-histories (path integral)Klein–GordonRydbergInterpretationsBayesianConsistent historiesCopenhagende Broglie–BohmEnsembleHidden-variableSuperdeterminismMany-worldsObjective-collapseQuantum logicRelationalTransactionalVon Neumann–WignerRelativistic quantum mechanicsQuantum field theoryQuantum information scienceQuantum computingQuantum chaosEPR paradoxDensity matrixScattering theoryQuantum statistical mechanicsQuantum machine learningAharonovBlackettde BroglieComptonDavissonEhrenfestEinsteinEverettFeynmanGlauberGutzwillerHilbertJordanKramersLandauMoseleyMillikanPlanckSimmonsSommerfeldvon NeumannWignerZeemanZeilingerSchrödinger pictureHilbert spaceMixed statePure stateQuantum numberscomplete set of commuting observablesStatistical ensembleSystemTensor productcovariant vectorSturm–Liouville equationFourier transformProbability currentcontinuity equationProbability densityMeasurement in quantum mechanicsBorn's ruleEigenstatesExpectation valueHermitian operatorObservableIndistinguishable particlesBosonsphotonsmesonsZ bosonW bosonHiggs bosonFermionsquarksleptonsAnti-symmetrizationSymmetrizationPauli exclusion principleBose–Einstein distributionBose–Einstein condensationFermi–Dirac distributionSlater determinantEntangled stateseparable stateno-cloning theoremangular momentumClebsch–Gordan coefficientssinglet statetriplet stateadiabatic approximationBorn–Oppenheimer approximationWKB approximationtime-dependent perturbation theorytime-independent perturbation theoryEhrenfest theoremfirst quantizationwave–particle dualityuncertainty principleCanonical commutation relationsPath integralwavenumberMathematical formulations of quantum mechanicsList of mathematical topics in quantum theoryList of quantum-mechanical potentialsIntroduction to quantum mechanicsGriffiths, David J.Liboff, Richard L.Sakurai, J. J.Modern Quantum MechanicsTimelineBorn rule ComplementarityGround stateExcited stateDegenerate levelsZero-point energyQuantum stateSymmetry in quantum mechanicsFormulationsMatrix mechanicsPath integral formulationPhase spaceMajoranaRarita–SchwingerObjective collapseBell testDelayed-choice quantum eraserMach–Zehnder interferometerWheeler's delayed choiceScienceQuantum biologyQuantum chemistryQuantum cosmologyQuantum differential calculusQuantum dynamicsQuantum geometryQuantum measurement problemQuantum mindQuantum stochastic calculusQuantum spacetimeTechnologyQuantum algorithmsQuantum amplifierQuantum busQuantum cellular automataQuantum finite automataQuantum channelQuantum circuitQuantum complexity theoryQuantum cryptographyQuantum electronicsQuantum error correctionQuantum imagingQuantum image processingQuantum informationQuantum key distributionQuantum logic gatesQuantum machineQuantum metamaterialQuantum metrologyQuantum networkQuantum neural networkQuantum opticsQuantum programmingQuantum sensingQuantum simulatorQuantum teleportationQuantum fluctuationCasimir effectQuantum gravityin popular cultureWigner's friendQuantum mysticism