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Kennard packet

Kennard packet

[′ken·ərd ‚pak·ət]
(quantum mechanics)
A wave packet for which the product of the root-mean-square deviations of position and momentum from their respective mean values is as small as possible, being equal to Planck's constant divided by 4π.
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