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(quantum mechanics) A type of wavefunction for a particle in a periodically repeating environment, most commonly an electron in a crystal.

plural of Bloch wave

plural of Bloch sphere

(quantum mechanics) A geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum-mechanical system, or qubit.

plural of Bloch wall

(physics) In solid-state physics, the oscillation of a particle (e.g. an electron) confined in a periodic potential when a constant force is acting on it.

plural of Bloch function

A narrow transition region at the boundary between magnetic domains, over which the magnetization changes from its value in one domain to that in the next.

(mathematics) The space, denoted by ℬ or ℬ, of holomorphic functions f defined on the open unit disc D in the complex plane, such that the function (1-|z|²)|f^′(z)| is bounded.