Atomic Orbitals

from the website of [the late] Prof. Kent Wilson, UCSD

Real Orbitals from Complex Solutions

Complex eigenfunctions of the hydrogen atom can be made completely real by taking the appropriate linear combinations of the degenerate eigenfunctions.

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