In quantum mechanics, wave function collapse (also called collapse of the state vector or reduction of the wave packet) is the phenomenon in which a wave function—initially in a superposition of ...

The resulting force and torque components (normalized by F 0 =a 2 |A 1 |/4π and T 0 =F 0 /k, with A 1 being the amplitude of the incident wave in the glass), as functions of the dimensionless ...