Quantum mechanics (QM) forms the most crucial ingredient of modern-era physical science curricula at
undergraduate level. The abstract ideas involved in QM related concepts pose a challenge towards
appropriate visualization as a consequence of their counter-intuitive nature and lack of
experiment-assisted visualization tools. At the heart of the quantum mechanical formulation lies the
concept of ‘wavefunction’, which forms the basis for understanding the behavior of physical systems.
At undergraduate level, the concept of ‘wavefunction’ is introduced in an abstract framework using
mathematical tools and therefore opens up an enormous scope for alternative conceptions and
erroneous visualization. The present work is an attempt towards exploring the visualization models
constructed by undergraduate students for appreciating the concept of ‘wavefunction’. We present a
qualitative analysis of the data obtained from administering a questionnaire containing four
visualization based qu…