Back نصف تقليدي Arabic Poolklassikalised kvantteooriad Estonian Physique semi-classique French פיזיקה סמי-קלאסית HE Teoria semiclassica Italian 半古典論 Japanese 반고전론 Korean Vật lý bán cổ điển Vietnamese 半經典物理學 Chinese
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In physics, semiclassical refers to a theory in which one part of a system is described quantum mechanically, whereas the other is treated classically. For example, external fields will be constant, or when changing will be classically described. In general, it incorporates a development in powers of Planck's constant, resulting in the classical physics of power 0, and the first nontrivial approximation to the power of (−1). In this case, there is a clear link between the quantum-mechanical system and the associated semi-classical and classical approximations, as it is similar in appearance to the transition from physical optics to geometric optics.