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by raverbashing 2178 days ago
Why? The PDE should be Psi^2 no? (which is what it's being plotted)

> In this base the absolute value of the wave function is supposed to be rotational symmetric around the z axis.

For the D orbital?

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The phi-dependence of the wave-functions are exp(i m phi), it has magnitude 1. |Psi|^2 = conj(Psi)*Psi, the phi-dependency cancels out.
If the wavefunction is supposed to have n,l,m quantum numbers (as suggested by the interface) then yes, it should be rotationally symmetric around the z axis.