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Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function
Jason Koebler writes: A team of physicists based at Brown University has succeeded in shattering a quantum wave function. That near-mythical representation of indeterminate reality, in which an unmeasured particle is able to occupy many states simultaneously, can be dissected into many parts. This dissection, which is described this week in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics, has the potential to turn how we view the quantum world on its head. Specifically, they found it's possible to take a wave function and isolate it into different parts. So, if our electron has some probability of being in position (x1,y1,z1) and another probability of being in position (x2,y2,z2), those two probabilities can be isolated from each other, cordoned off like quantum crime scenes.
Whichever one's left
So there I was, scribbling down some notes off the PC screen by hand, when I reached for the keyboard and Ctrl-S'd.
Brown?
;)
Brown???
Sorry, I knew too many Brownies back in my uni days. More likely, they just forgot about "bigger bottom, better borrow" and broke the wave function the old fashioned way.
/ I could also have gone with "paid daddy to break it for them", but took the high ground... this time!
"...cordoned off like quantum crime scenes."
I like creative usage of metaphors in science.
Yeah, but it lacks a certain, shall we say, automotiveness to it?
A team of physicists based at Brown University has succeeded in shattering a quantum wave function
Well hurry up and put it back together! i use these damned functions all the time and i cant spend another 6 years as a graduate assistant!!
Good people go to bed earlier.