Difference between revisions of "Ground state"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
DavidB4-bot (talk | contribs) (→References: clean up & uniformity) |
|||
| (7 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | The lowest possible energy state for a given substance.<ref>Wile, | + | The '''ground state''' is the lowest possible [[energy]] state for a given substance.<ref>Wile, Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With Chemistry''. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1998</ref> |
| + | |||
| + | In Quantum Physics, ground state refers to the stationary state of lowest energy available to a quantum system, where the stationary states are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian operator, which usually (but not always) yields eigenstates of energy that are stationary in the sense that the do not depend on time. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Category:Chemistry]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Quantum Mechanics]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:41, July 13, 2016
The ground state is the lowest possible energy state for a given substance.[1]
In Quantum Physics, ground state refers to the stationary state of lowest energy available to a quantum system, where the stationary states are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian operator, which usually (but not always) yields eigenstates of energy that are stationary in the sense that the do not depend on time.
References
- â Wile, Jay L. Exploring Creation With Chemistry. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1998