A quantum-style microscope has imaged the hydrogen atom’s wave function, the equation that determines its electrons’ positions – and in turn the atom’s properties. The electrons that dance ...

Let’s make a quantum leap (pardon the expression ... Figure 2: Measurement of hydrogen atom wave functions (Physical Review Letters via New Scientist) Figure 3: 3D simulation of electron orbitals of ...

But when describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have had to rely on wave functions — a mathematical way of describing the fuzzy quantum states of particles ...

This is why an international team of physicists turned to a quantum microscope ... result is a very ‘crisp’ image of a hydrogen atom’s wave function magnified more than 20,000 times.

What lies within the H atom? Experimental observation of the transverse nodal structure of four atomic hydrogen Stark ... superpositions of quantum-mechanical stationary states. The wavefunction of ...

That changes, thanks to a newly developed “quantum microscope,” invented ... Stodolna’s experiment imaged the wave function of a hydrogen atom. Hydrogen is uniquely suited for the new ...

The principle of wave-particle duality is crucial in quantum physics, highlighting the dual nature of light and matter and ...

For example, take the familiar concept of a quantum jump. An electron in an atom changes energy levels ... These probabilities are given by a wave function, and the evolution of the wave function ...

But a quantum computer at IBM just passed a milestone: It performed the first calculations involving molecules containing more than just hydrogen and helium. Digital computers crunch numbers to ...