News tagged with quantum dynamics

Advances in mathematical description of motion

Complex mathematical investigation of problems relevant to classical and quantum mechanics by EU-funded researchers has led to insight regarding instabilities of dynamic systems. This is important for descriptions ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Extreme imaging wins science praise

A Griffith University PhD candidate has been highly awarded for his innovative image of the shadow of a single atom.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

White laser pulses with precisely tailored waveform enable control of electrons in microcosm

(PhysOrg.com) -- An expedition through the fast-paced microscopic world of atoms reveals electrons that spin around at enormous speeds and have gigantic forces are acting on them. Monitoring the ultrafast ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Squeezed light from single atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics scientists generate amplitude-squeezed light fields using single atoms trapped inside optical cavities.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can fluid dynamics offer insights into quantum mechanics?

In the first decades of the 20th century, physicists hotly debated how to make sense of the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as the tendency of subatomic particles to behave like both particles ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

A simple quantum dynamics problem?

Research reported in The Journal of Chemical Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, provides the first real-time measurements of the time dependence of the individual steps of dis ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum dynamics of matter waves reveal exotic multibody collisions

At extremely low temperatures atoms can aggregate into so-called Bose Einstein condensates forming coherent laser-like matter waves. Due to interactions between the atoms fundamental quantum dynamics emerge ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have been trying to understand the many strange implications of the theory: superpositions, wave-particle duality, and the observer’s ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (98) | comments 162 feature

Exerting better control over matter waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- “The concept of matter waves is at the heart of quantum mechanics,” Oliver Morsch tells PhysOrg.com. “At the beginning of the last century, scientists discovered that solid particles could exhibit proper ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 15 feature