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wave vector

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wave vector [′wāv ‚vek·tər]
(physics)
A vector whose direction is the direction of phase propagation of a wave at each point in space, and whose magnitude is sometimes set at 2π/λ and sometimes at 1/λ, where λ is the wavelength.


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For our interference simulations in the plane wave theory, we extended our previous program [4] prepared with the decomposition of the wave vector to the parallel and the perpendicular components to the sample surface.
 
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