Caltech professor of chemistry Sandeep Sharma and colleagues from IBM and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan ...

A wave function describes all of the possible states that such particles can have, including properties like energy, momentum, and position. "The wave function is a combination of all of the ...

In this model, the wave function — the name physicists give to the wave-like property of matter — doesn't really exist. ... A photograph of a cat and Schrodinger's wave equation.

Regarding collapse of a wave function – a quote in a Grant Callin book has the aliens saying to us “So you have developed an entire physics based on the premise that a sentient observer is ...

These superpositions split the wave function into multiple universes or “histories,” each evolving independently. However, without a clear basis to define these splits, ...

It’s just that the wave functions of distinct states of macroscopic objects, such as a coffee cup being in this place and that place, are not coherent. Quantum coherence is essentially what ...

If the wave function is real, then a single experiment should not be able to determine its polarisation – it can have both until you take more measurements. Alternatively, ...

Taken at face value, a wave function indicates that a particle resides in all those possibilities at once. Invariably, however, an observation reveals only one of those states.

New research bolsters the idea of Schrodinger's Cat, a quantum physics thought experiment where a cat is both alive and dead at once. Skip to main content. ... (called a wave function) ...