title: Schrödinger (disambiguation)
text: # Schrödinger (disambiguation)
  
  Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) was an Austrian physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.
  
  Schrödinger may also refer to:
  
  ## Physics
  
  * Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment devised by Schrödinger that illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects
  * Schrödinger equation, an equation formulated by Schrödinger that describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes in time
  * Schrödinger field, a quantum field which obeys the Schrödinger equation
  * Schrödinger group, the symmetry group of the free particle Schrödinger equation
  * Schrödinger method, a method used to solve some problems of distribution and occupancy
  * Schrödinger picture, a formulation of quantum mechanics in which the state vectors evolve in time, but the operators (observables and others) are constant
  
  ## Astronomy
  
  * Schrödinger (crater), a lunar impact crater
  * Vallis Schrödinger, a long, nearly linear valley that lies on the far side of the Moon
  * 13092 Schrödinger, a main belt asteroid
  
  ## Other
  
  * Schrödinger, an implementation of Dirac (video compression format)
  * Schrödinger (company), a scientific software company
  * Schrödinger (Hellsing), a fictional character in the Hellsing manga series by Kouta Hirano
  