As limestone, calcium carbonate is a biogenic rock, and is more compacted than chalk. As marble, calcium carbonate is a coarse-crystalline, metamorphic rock, which is formed when chalk or limestone is recrystallised under conditions of high temperature and pressure.
Definition: A wavefunction is a function describing the probability of a particle's quantum state as a function of position, momentum, time, and/or spin. Wavefunctions are commonly denoted by the variable Ï.
The light circles represent atoms. A Bloch wave (also called Bloch state or Bloch function or Bloch wave function), named after Swiss physicist Felix Bloch, is a type of wavefunction for a particle in a periodically-repeating environment, most commonly an electron in a crystal.A wavefunction Ï is a Bloch wave if it has the form: Bloch wave (bottom) can be broken up into the product of a periodic function (top) and a plane-wave (center). The left side and right side represent the same Bloch wave broken up in two different ways, involving the wave vector k 1 (left) or k 2 (right). The difference (k 1 â k 2) is a reciprocal lattice vector.