quantum mechanics

English

Noun

quantum mechanics (uncountable)

2. (physics) The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms in place of classical Newtonian ones.
3. (by extension) Something overly complicated or detailed.

   Synonym: rocket science

Derived terms

• quantum mechanical

Translations

branch of physics

• Arabic: ميكانيكا الكم (ar)
• Bulgarian: ква́нтова меха́ника f (kvántova mehánika)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 量子力學 / 量子力学 (loeng⁶ zi² lik⁶ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 量子力學 / 量子力学 (liōng-chú la̍t-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 量子力學 / 量子力学 (zh) (liàngzǐ lìxué)

• Czech: kvantová mechanika f
• Danish: kvantemekanik c
• Dutch: kwantummechanica (nl) f
• Esperanto: kvantuma meĥaniko, kvantuma mekaniko, kvantummeĥaniko, kvantummekaniko
• Finnish: kvanttimekaniikka (fi)
• French: mécanique quantique (fr) f, physique quantique (fr) f
• German: Quantenmechanik (de) f
• Greek: κβαντομηχανική (el) f (kvantomichanikí)
• Hebrew: מֶכָנִיקַת הַקְּוַנְטִים f (mekhanikat hak'vantim)
• Hungarian: kvantummechanika (hu)
• Icelandic: skammtafræði (is) f, skammtaaflfræði f
• Indonesian: mekanika kuantum
• Irish: meicnic chandamach f
• Italian: meccanica quantistica (it) f
• Japanese: 量子力学 (ja) (りょうしりきがく, ryōshi rikigaku)
• Kazakh: квант механикасы (kvant mexanikasy), кванттық механика (kvanttyq mexanika), толқындық механика (tolqyndyq mexanika)
• Korean: 양자역학(量子力學) (ko) (yangjayeokhak)
• Macedonian: ква́нтна меха́ника f (kvántna mehánika)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: квант механик (kvant mexanik), квантын хүчний ухаан (kvantyn xüčnii uxaan) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠺᠸᠠᠨᠲ ᠦᠨ
  ᠮᠧᠬᠠᠨᠢᠭ (kwant-ün mēqanig), ᠺᠸᠠᠨᠲ ᠦᠨ
  ᠬᠦᠴᠦᠨ ᠦ
  ᠤᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (kwant-ün küčün-ü uqaɣan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvantemekanikk m

  Nynorsk: kvantemekanikk m

• Persian: مکانیک کوانتوم (mekânik-e koântom)
• Polish: mechanika kwantowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: mecânica quântica f
• Romanian: mecanică cuantică (ro) f
• Russian: ква́нтовая меха́ника f (kvántovaja mexánika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: квантна меха̀ника f

  Roman: kvantna mehànika f

• Spanish: mecánica cuántica (es) f
• Swedish: kvantmekanik (sv) c
• Tagalog: damuing sigwasan
• Turkish: kuantum fiziği, kuantum mekaniği, nicem mekaniği, dalga mekaniği (tr)
• Vietnamese: cơ học lượng tử (機學量子)

something overly complicated — see rocket science

See also

• quantum physics
• quantum theory
• uncertainty principle
• wavefunction
• wave-particle duality