wavefunction collapse

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wavefunction collapse (countable and uncountable, plural wavefunction collapses)

  1. (quantum mechanics) 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.

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