English: Collection of 10 atomic single-electron orbitals for the lowest four
n quantum numbers. Only the cases
with one radial node are shown. Each row shows one
l-quantum number
l=0 (s),
l=1 (p),
l=2 (d) and
l=3 (f) with
m quantum numbers
in ascending order. Orbitals for
are not shown. Those would be mirrored versions of the
ones. The color depicts the complex-valued phase of the
wavefunction. In contrast to the real-valued orbitals in chemistry, which are superpositions of several
m-eigenstates, the probability densities shown here are symmetric around the
z-axis. The solid bodies enclose the volume where the continuous probability density exceeds a well-chosen threshold. The formulas that describe the orbitals can be found at
Hydrogen atom.
The labels in the image show the quantum numbers
nlm with
l encoded as letter.