Are orbitals observable?

Hyle

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-35

  Mulder, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Approximations; Observability; Orbitals; Quantum mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052097933     PISSN: 14335158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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