English-Swedish translations for ket

• ketiska

Definition of ket

• A vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector. Symbolised by '''|...〉'''
• Carrion; any filth
• A sweet, treat or candy
• ketamine
• matted wool

Examples

• A particular ket, say $|A\backslash rangle$, might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, $\backslash langle\; A|$, would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.

Related words

• ticket
• diskette
• marketplace
• basket
• kettle
• packet
• bucket
• blanket
• pocket