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I'm not a physicist, and am trying to better understand quantum coherence. I understand that it's defined by the fact that the entire quantum system can be defined by a single wave function. My question is whether, due to wave-particle duality on the quantum level, it is equally valid to speak (in layman's terms) of coherence as a "structural order" as much as "phase coherence"? In other words, is it equally correct to say that electron particles of a system are physically aligned as it is to say that their energy waves are in-phase?