1 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States ...

Wave–particle interaction in plasmas is a universal phenomenon observed in nature and laboratory, leading to various physical processes such as plasma heating, dissipation, and losses. Once it occurs, ...

1 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States 2 T-5 Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, ...

This project simulates the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet — a foundational concept in quantum mechanics that shows how a free particle's wave function behaves over time. In quantum physics, ...

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more ...

Introduction You may have heard that light consists of particles called photons. How could something as simple as light be made of particles? Physicists describe light as both a particle and a wave.

The fuzzy quantum shape that describes the speed or location of a single particle, its wave function, has now been directly measured in the laboratory, giving this mathematical concept a small dose of ...

It’s in your physics textbook, go look. It says that you can either model light as an electromagnetic wave OR you can model light a stream of photons. You can’t use both models at the same time. It’s ...