Bloch wave

The wavefunction for a particle in a periodically-repeating environment, most commonly an electron in a crystal
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Bloch wave

Summary

Bloch wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Felix Bloch is named after Bloch wave[2].
  • Bloch wave's GND ID is recorded as 4436775-2[3].
  • Bloch wave's subclass of is recorded as wave function[4].
  • Bloch wave's part of is recorded as Bloch theorem[5].
  • Bloch wave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_25c[6].
  • Bloch wave's defining formula is recorded as \psi(\mathbf{r}) = \mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i} \mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{r}} u(\mathbf{r})[7].
  • Bloch wave's Quora topic ID is recorded as Bloch-Wave[8].
  • Bloch wave's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[9].
  • Bloch wave's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 37689646[10].
  • Bloch wave's Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID is recorded as funzioni-d-onda-di-bloch[11].
  • Bloch wave's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as blokhovskie-elektrony-22bd29[12].
  • Bloch wave's Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID is recorded as 1173[13].

Why It Matters

Bloch wave ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Bloch wave. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/bloch-wave
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