The end result is a very ‘crisp’ image of a hydrogen atom’s wave function magnified more than 20,000 times. Per the image release, in the image on the left, we see examples of four atomic ...

The wave function is a representation of all the possible quantum states of a particle. Until the particle is measured, causing the wave function to "collapse," that matter really does exist with ...

What you’re looking at is the first direct observation of an atom’s electron orbital — an atom’s actual wave function! To capture the image, researchers utilized a new quantum microscope ...

Regarding collapse of a wave function ... You don’t experience quantum weirdness in your everyday lives, so it takes some work to concoct an example where it shows up.

The "wave function collapse" transforms vague clouds of quantum possibilities into the physical reality we know – but no one knows how. New experiments are finally revealing reality in the making ...

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine. At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a powerful but mysterious entity that is used to ...

I HAVE been able to show that there does not exist a mutually definite correlation between the spin and the transformation properties of the wave function of an elementary particle, as generally ...