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  2. Wave model - Wikipedia

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    The tree model requires languages to evolve exclusively through social splitting and linguistic divergence. In the “tree” scenario, the adoption of certain innovations by a group of dialects should result immediately in their loss of contact with other related dialects: this is the only way to explain the nested organisation of subgroups imposed by the tree structure.

  3. Atomic orbital - Wikipedia

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    Atomic orbitals are basic building blocks of the atomic orbital model (or electron cloud or wave mechanics model), a modern framework for visualizing submicroscopic behavior of electrons in matter. In this model, the electron cloud of an atom may be seen as being built up (in approximation) in an electron configuration that is a product of ...

  4. Bohr–Sommerfeld model - Wikipedia

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    In the end, the model was replaced by the modern quantum-mechanical treatment of the hydrogen atom, which was first given by Wolfgang Pauli in 1925, using Heisenberg's matrix mechanics. The current picture of the hydrogen atom is based on the atomic orbitals of wave mechanics, which Erwin Schrödinger developed in 1926.

  5. Atomic, molecular, and optical physics - Wikipedia

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    One attempt to explain hydrogen spectral lines was the Bohr atom model. [ 13 ] Experiments including electromagnetic radiation and matter - such as the photoelectric effect , Compton effect , and spectra of sunlight the due to the unknown element of Helium , the limitation of the Bohr model to Hydrogen, and numerous other reasons, lead to an ...

  6. Molecular orbital theory - Wikipedia

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    Thomas–Fermi model Orbital-free density functional theory Linearized augmented-plane-wave method Projector augmented wave method: Electronic band structure; Nearly free electron model Tight binding Muffin-tin approximation k·p perturbation theory Empty lattice approximation GW approximation Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker method

  7. Bohr model - Wikipedia

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    In atomic physics, the Bohr model or Rutherford–Bohr model was the first successful model of the atom. Developed from 1911 to 1918 by Niels Bohr and building on Ernest Rutherford 's nuclear model , it supplanted the plum pudding model of J J Thomson only to be replaced by the quantum atomic model in the 1920s.

  8. Quantum mechanics - Wikipedia

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    For example, the electron wave function for an unexcited hydrogen atom is a spherically symmetric function known as an s orbital . Analytic solutions of the Schrödinger equation are known for very few relatively simple model Hamiltonians including the quantum harmonic oscillator , the particle in a box , the dihydrogen cation , and the ...

  9. Pilot wave theory - Wikipedia

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    Louis de Broglie's early results on the pilot wave theory were presented in his thesis (1924) in the context of atomic orbitals where the waves are stationary.Early attempts to develop a general formulation for the dynamics of these guiding waves in terms of a relativistic wave equation were unsuccessful until in 1926 Schrödinger developed his non-relativistic wave equation.