• In quantum mechanics, the total angular momentum quantum number parametrises the total angular momentum of a given particle, by combining its orbital angular...
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  • In quantum mechanics, angular momentum coupling is the procedure of constructing eigenstates of total angular momentum out of eigenstates of separate...
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  • magnetic quantum number is a quantum number used to distinguish quantum states of an electron or other particle according to its angular momentum along a...
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  • chemistry, the spin quantum number is a quantum number (designated s) that describes the intrinsic angular momentum (or spin angular momentum, or simply spin)...
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  • In quantum mechanics, the angular momentum operator is one of several related operators analogous to classical angular momentum. The angular momentum operator...
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    In quantum mechanics, the azimuthal quantum number ℓ is a quantum number for an atomic orbital that determines its orbital angular momentum and describes...
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    orbital angular momentum and spin. Thus another set of quantum numbers should be used. This set includes The total angular momentum quantum number: j = |...
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  • In quantum mechanics and its applications to quantum many-particle systems, notably quantum chemistry, angular momentum diagrams, or more accurately from...
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    The total angular momentum (total angular momentum quantum number J) of a particle is therefore the combination of intrinsic angular momentum (spin)...
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  • called the principal quantum number, and h is the Planck constant. This formula is not correct in quantum mechanics as the angular momentum magnitude is described...
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    because it is a conserved quantity – the total angular momentum of a closed system remains constant. Angular momentum has both a direction and a magnitude...
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    The total angular momentum (quantum number J) of a particle is the combination of the two intrinsic angular momentums (spin) and the orbital angular momentum...
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  • Term symbol (category Quantum chemistry)
    a term symbol is an abbreviated description of the total spin and orbital angular momentum quantum numbers of the electrons in a multi-electron atom....
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    Hund's rules (category Quantum chemistry)
    multiplicity, the term with the largest value of the total orbital angular momentum quantum number  L {\displaystyle L\,} has the lowest energy. For a...
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  • Clebsch–Gordan coefficients (category Quantum mechanics)
    numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an...
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    Hydrogen atom (category Quantum models)
    to the atom's total energy. Note that the maximum value of the angular momentum quantum number is limited by the principal quantum number: it can run only...
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  • magnitude of spin angular momentum, though its direction may change. These are indicated by assigning the particle a spin quantum number.: 183–184  The SI...
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    Atomic orbital (category Quantum chemistry)
    p orbital, d orbital, and f orbital refer to orbitals with angular momentum quantum number ℓ = 0, 1, 2, and 3 respectively. These names, together with...
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  • Selection rule (category Quantum mechanics)
    J=L+S} is the total angular momentum, L {\displaystyle L} is the azimuthal quantum number, S {\displaystyle S} is the spin quantum number, and M J {\displaystyle...
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    \mu _{\text{B}}\,{\sqrt {j\,(j+1)\,}}} where j is the total angular momentum quantum number, gJ is the Landé g-factor, and μB is the Bohr magneton....
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  • The orbital angular momentum of light (OAM) is the component of angular momentum of a light beam that is dependent on the field spatial distribution, and...
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  • Multiplicity (chemistry) (category Quantum chemistry)
    spectroscopy and quantum chemistry, the multiplicity of an energy level is defined as 2S+1, where S is the total spin angular momentum. States with multiplicity...
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  • total angular momentum quantum number) 2. Δ M J = 0 , ± 1 {\displaystyle \Delta M_{J}=0,\pm 1} ( M J {\displaystyle M_{J}} : projection of the total angular...
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  • C parity (category Quantum mechanics)
    (parallel) The total orbital angular momentum quantum number is L = 0 (spectroscopic S orbital) Total angular momentum quantum number is J = 0 or 1 C...
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    bound states that are quantized to discrete values of energy, momentum, angular momentum, and other quantities, in contrast to classical systems where...
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  • the five quantum numbers: n {\displaystyle n} (the "principal quantum number"), j {\displaystyle j} (the "total angular momentum quantum number"), ℓ {\displaystyle...
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  • proportional to the total angular momentum quantum number (J or F) of the sub-level with the larger of their total angular momentum value (J or F). The rule...
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  • which is the total angular momentum operator. In other words, m l , m s {\displaystyle m_{\text{l}},m_{s}} are no longer good quantum numbers, but l...
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  • Hydrogen-like atom (category Quantum mechanics)
    different angular momentum, where l (a non-negative integer) is the quantum number of the orbital angular momentum. The magnetic quantum number m (satisfying...
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  • Ladder operator (category Quantum operators)
    applications of ladder operators in quantum mechanics are in the formalisms of the quantum harmonic oscillator and angular momentum. There is a relationship between...
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