Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

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In recent years, physicists have been trying to better understand the behavior of individual quantum particles as they move ...

In the peculiar world of quantum mechanics, particles exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, and they can be described as having wave functions. Out of this strange world, the ...

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Quantum mechanics continues to offer profound insights into the fundamental nature of matter and energy, and the use of special functions plays a critical role in obtaining exact analytical solutions ...

Few of Albert Einstein’s sayings have been as widely quoted as his remark that God does not play dice with the universe. People have naturally taken his quip as proof that he was dogmatically opposed ...