There has long been a mystery when calculating how an incoming light wave scatters off an object and becomes a modified, ...

The wave function—an abstract concept used to predict the behavior of quantum particles—is the bedrock on which physicists have built their understanding of quantum mechanics. But this bedrock ...

Previous work that claimed to propose a way to test whether the wave function is real made a splash in the physics community, but turned out to be based on improper assumptions, and no one ever ...

Researchers developed a technique to calculate quantum wave functions 350 times faster than previous methods.

Experiments led by Humphrey Maris, professor of physics at Brown, suggest that the quantum state of an electron -- the electron's wave function -- can be shattered into pieces and those pieces can ...

The idea that observation collapses the wave function and forces a quantum ‘choice’ is known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. However, it’s not the only option on the table.

“Could we hear the pop of a wave-function collapse, and if so, what would it sound like?” asks Antoine Tilloy of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany. To find out why the “sound is ...

Minuscule jitters may hint at quantum collapse mechanism Data match prediction for wave function theory, but more experiments are needed ...