matrix mechanics
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matrix mechanics (uncountable)
(physics) The original formulation of quantum mechanics in which the operators were represented by time-dependent matrices.
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The correspondence to classical mechanics was even more explicit, although somewhat more formal, in Heisenberg's matrix mechanics.
This line of research began with Werner Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics and in a more mathematically developed form with Pascual Jordan around 1933.
The wave mechanics picture of the uncertainty principle is more visually intuitive, but the more abstract matrix mechanics picture formulates it in a way that generalizes more easily.
The original foundation formulas of quantum mechanics the Schrödinger equation and Heisenberg's matrix mechanics make use of complex numbers.