Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Physicists think that our universe started out as just a lot of quantum fluctuations. That means, if you’re able to calculate wave-function of those quantum fluctuations, you ...

There has long been a mystery when calculating how an incoming light wave scatters off an object and becomes a modified, ...

This secret geometry of wave functions went undetected for decades. But when quantum materials began to surprise physicists with inexplicable behaviors, physicists in the 1980s realized that some of ...

Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions (PSWFs): Special functions optimised for representing band‐limited signals, providing an orthogonal basis with excellent time–frequency localisation.

The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery – and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a ...