The wave function is central in quantum mechanics and describes the quantum state of microscopic objects. But what the wave function essentially represents is still in debate. Now researchers in ...

It underpins the whole theory of quantum mechanics, but does it exist? For nearly a century physicists have argued about whether the wave function is a real part of the world or just a ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

(via PBS Space Time) Objective Collapse Theories offer a explanation of quantum mechanics that is at once brand new and based in classical mechanics. In the world of quantum mechanics, it’s no big ...

Quantum mechanics has a concept called a "wave function." It's incredibly important because it holds all the measurable information about a particle (or group of particles) within it. In practice ...

The wave function is a central concept in quantum mechanics. It describes the state of a quantum system and contains all the information needed to predict measurement outcomes. Mathematically, the ...

But new research suggests the electron's quantum state -- the electron wave function -- can be separated into many parts. That has some strange implications for the theory of quantum mechanics.

Hydrodynamic pilot‐wave dynamics offers a classical analogue to quantum phenomena by examining systems in which macroscopic droplets are guided by waves that they themselves generate.

By interpreting the wave function as a subjective belief and subject to revision by the rules of Bayesian statistics, the mysterious paradoxes of quantum mechanics vanish, QBism's proponents say.

“Up to now, the mechanism behind wave function collapse has been considered a mystery that is disconnected from established wave mechanics.