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Cubic harmonic
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<p>In fields like <a href="/facts/Computational_chemistry/KyuCgRV3">computational chemistry</a> and <a href="/facts/Solid-state_physics/Cmc6hvyR">solid-state</a> and <a href="/facts/Condensed_matter_physics/EBVI5nmL">condensed matter</a> physics the so-called <a href="/facts/Atomic_orbitals/tKhgl6mL">atomic orbitals</a>, or <a href="/facts/Spin-orbital/tKhgl6mL">spin-orbitals</a>, as they appear in textbooks on quantum physics, are often partially replaced by cubic harmonics for a number of reasons. These harmonics are usually named tesseral harmonics in the field of condensed matter physics in which the name kubic harmonics rather refers to the irreducible representations in the cubic point-group. </p>