The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

Prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) and their discrete counterparts – the discrete prolate spheroidal sequences (DPSSs) – have emerged as essential tools in the analysis of band‐limited ...

(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 ...

Catalysts play an indispensable role in modern manufacturing. More than 80% of all manufactured products, from ...

The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated ...