Talk:Triplet
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[edit] Quantum Mechanical Triplet
I want to get this right. I'll mostly ignore the unproductive inflamatory comments (Confused? How about Insulting!).
As is, the description of a triplet in quantum mechanics is not general enough. A triplet state doesn't have to be derived from two fermions. In the oxygen molecule, for example, there are 16 electrons making up the triplet ground state. Many other atoms or molecules have spin triplets, and only a few (hydrogen molecule and helium-like atoms) have exactly two electrons. Also, the W and Z bosons have spin 1 and exist in spin triplets by themselves.
So I suggest, the following wording as an evolution of the current description:
- in quantum mechanics, a spin triplet is a set of three quantum states of a system, each with total spin S = 1.
It still doesn't mention the difference between the three states of a triplet, only the similarities.
--Snags 15:36, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
This disambiguation page was marked for cleanup per MOS:DAB. I removed the following entries because Wikipedia is not a dictionary and because they didn't back up their claim to be included on this disambiguation page by mentioning the word "triplet" in the linekd article. Some could however potentially be added to wikt:triplet.
- in optics a compound lens which is made from three components in proximity to each other (or fastened together)
- in poetry, a tercet (three lines) with a common rhyme
- in genetics, three nucleotide pairs that form a codon
- Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison, and Edgerrin James from 1999-2006 were also referred to by this title.
