Born probability
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In quantum mechanics, the Born probability is a probability of an event calculated from a wavefunction or more generally from the density matrix. The probability (or its density) equals the squared modulus of the normalized complex probability amplitude an:
- P = | an | 2
The interpretation that the physical meaning of the wavefunction is probabilistic was proposed by Max Born, and it became a pillar of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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