What type of wave does the electron travel as?

[Rattus_norveg]

An electron travels as a wave. But what kind of wave?
Sound waves are longitudinal, light waves are transverse, but what kind of wave does the electron travel as?

 

[Dmitry67]

schrodinger waves

 

[haael]

Sound waves are longitudinal, light waves are transverse, but what kind of wave does the electron travel as?

Long waves are scalars, transverse waves are vectors. Electron is a spinor.

schrodinger waves

More like Dirac.

 

[glengarry]

An "electron" is just a theoretical entity that exists as the result of certain formal calculations. It doesn't really make sense to say that the results of calculations can "travel." That is, one result has no necessary connection to another. The idea of continuously persisting objects flying through space is really a "classical" notion that has no relevance to QM.