Physics:Quantum electron

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The quantum electron is an elementary charged lepton and one of the basic constituents of atoms.

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Complex yellow illustration of the quantum electron, showing charge, spin, orbitals, and wavefunction coupling.

Overview

Electrons occupy quantum states around atomic nuclei, carry electric charge, and participate in electromagnetic and weak interactions.

Index

Composite matter

1. Materials

2. Matter

3. Plasma and fusion physics

4. Molecules

5. Nuclear matter

Sub-molecular

6. Atoms

7. Particles

8. Composite particles

9. Fields

10. Vacuum and spacetime

Full contents

1. Materials (6) Back to index

1. Physics:Quantum materials/band structure

2. Physics:Quantum materials/phonon

3. Physics:Quantum materials/superconductor

4. Physics:Quantum materials/topological phase

5. Physics:Quantum materials/crystal lattice

6. Physics:Quantum materials/solid state

2. Matter (5) Back to index

7. Physics:Quantum matter/phase

8. Physics:Quantum matter/state of matter

9. Physics:Quantum matter/thermodynamic system

10. Physics:Quantum matter/density

11. Physics:Quantum matter/temperature

3. Plasma and fusion physics (6) Back to index

12. Physics:Quantum Tokamak

13. Physics:Quantum Fusion

14. Physics:Quantum matter/plasma

15. Physics:Quantum magnetic confinement

16. Physics:Quantum Lawson criterion

17. Physics:Quantum Quark–gluon plasma

4. Molecules (6) Back to index

18. Physics:Quantum molecular structure

19. Physics:Quantum chemical bond

20. Physics:Quantum molecular orbital

21. Physics:Quantum degenerate orbitals

22. Physics:Quantum molecular spectroscopy

23. Physics:Quantum molecular vibration

5. Nuclear matter (6) Back to index

24. Physics:Quantum atomic nucleus

25. Physics:Quantum nuclear matter

26. Physics:Quantum isotope

27. Physics:Quantum deuteron

28. Physics:Quantum nuclear binding energy

29. Physics:Quantum nuclear force

6. Atoms (7) Back to index

30. Physics:Quantum atoms/electron

31. Physics:Quantum atoms/energy level

32. Physics:Quantum atoms/electron configuration

33. Physics:Quantum atoms/transition

34. Physics:Quantum atoms/ion

35. Physics:Quantum atoms/orbital

36. Physics:Quantum atoms/hydrogen

7. Particles (12) Back to index

37. Physics:Quantum particle

38. Physics:Quantum elementary particle

39. Physics:Quantum fermion

40. Physics:Quantum boson

41. Physics:Quantum lepton

42. Physics:Quantum electron

43. Physics:Quantum neutrino

44. Physics:Quantum quark

45. Physics:Quantum photon

46. Physics:Quantum gluon

47. Physics:Quantum W and Z bosons

48. Physics:Quantum Higgs boson

8. Composite particles (12) Back to index

49. Physics:Quantum hadron

50. Physics:Quantum baryon

51. Physics:Quantum meson

52. Physics:Quantum nucleon

53. Physics:Quantum proton

54. Physics:Quantum neutron

55. Physics:Quantum pion

56. Physics:Quantum kaon

57. Physics:Quantum glueball

58. Physics:Quantum tetraquark

59. Physics:Quantum pentaquark

60. Physics:Quantum exotic hadron

9. Fields (12) Back to index

61. Physics:Quantum field theory

62. Physics:Quantum electromagnetic field

63. Physics:Quantum gauge field

64. Physics:Quantum scalar field

65. Physics:Quantum vacuum field

66. Physics:Quantum wavefunction field

67. Physics:Quantum spinor field

68. Physics:Quantum matter field

69. Physics:Quantum Higgs field

70. Physics:Quantum Yang-Mills field

71. Physics:Quantum photon field

72. Physics:Quantum gluon field

10. Vacuum and spacetime (12) Back to index

73. Physics:Quantum spacetime

74. Physics:Quantum vacuum energy

75. Physics:Quantum virtual particle

76. Physics:Quantum zero-point energy

77. Physics:Quantum curved spacetime

78. Physics:Quantum quantum gravity

79. Physics:Quantum vacuum state

80. Physics:Quantum false vacuum

81. Physics:Quantum Planck scale

82. Physics:Quantum spacetime foam

83. Physics:Quantum metric field

84. Physics:Quantum field theory in curved spacetime

References

Author: Harold Foppele

Source attribution: Electron