Rigid rotor wavefunctions plotted on the surface of the sphere. Leftmost image is a plot of the probability density, i.e., the square of the spherical harmonic: |Yl,m|2. The blacker the shade, the higher the probability. Coloured spheres are plots of the phase, with zero phase coloured red.
![](Y00.gif) |
![](Y00phase.gif) |
|Y0,0|2 |
phase Y0,0 |
![](Y10.gif) |
![](Y10phase.gif) |
|Y1,0|2 |
phase Y1,0 |
![](Y11.gif) |
![](Y11phase.gif) |
![](Y1m1phase.gif) |
|Y1,1|2 = |Y1,-1|2 |
phase Y1,1 |
phase Y1,-1 |
![](Y20.gif) |
![](Y20phase.gif) |
|Y2,0|2 |
phase Y2,0 |
![](Y21.gif) |
![](Y21phase.gif) |
![](Y2m1phase.gif) |
|Y2,1|2 = |Y2,-1|2 |
phase Y2,1 |
phase Y2,-1 |
![](Y22.gif) |
![](Y22phase.gif) |
![](Y2m2phase.gif) |
|Y2,2|2 = |Y2,-2|2 |
phase Y2,2 |
phase Y2,-2 |
![](Y30.gif) |
![](Y30phase.gif) |
|Y3,0|2 |
phase Y3,0 |
![](Y31.gif) |
![](Y31phase.gif) |
![](Y3m1phase.gif) |
|Y3,1|2 = |Y3,-1|2 |
phase Y3,1 |
phase Y3,-1 |
![](Y32.gif) |
![](Y32phase.gif) |
![](Y3m2phase.gif) |
|Y3,2|2 = |Y3,-2|2 |
phase Y3,2 |
phase Y3,-2 |
![](Y33.gif) |
![](Y33phase.gif) |
![](Y3m3phase.gif) |
|Y3,3|2 = |Y3,-3|2 |
phase Y3,3 |
phase Y3,-3 |