My German is pretty good but I know very little of the terminology in Quantum Mechanics.
In Quantum Mechanics one often say something like
the momentum operator p acts on the ket |ψ>.
How would you say that in German?
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Sign up to join this communityMy German is pretty good but I know very little of the terminology in Quantum Mechanics.
In Quantum Mechanics one often say something like
the momentum operator p acts on the ket |ψ>.
How would you say that in German?
In most cases in physics, act on sth. is translated by auf etw. wirken. So the phrase is:
Der Impulsoperator p wirkt auf das Ket |ψ>.
For example, in this Wikipedia article you can read:
In der Impulsdarstellung wirkt der Impulsoperator multiplikativ auf Impulswellenfunktionen [...].
Another possible construction I can think of is auf etw. angewandt/angewendet werden:
Der Impulsoperator p wird auf das Ket |ψ> angewandt/angewendet.