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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Quantum coherence In quantum mechanics, objects can be represented as either a combination of waves or particles. In principle, this applies to any object.

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 ...

Take seriously quantum theory’s higher-dimensional models, and we could make sense of the strange, "spooky" phenomenon of entanglement and restore some order to cause and effect. Wavefunction realism ...

Welcome to “The curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics”–featuring particle/wave duality.

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.