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. New ...

The simultaneous use of both methods reveals how the two electrons are correlated and produces an image of the square of the H 2 correlated two-electron wave function. The physicists emphasize one ...

By studying these materials, the researchers were able to observe how the geometry of electron wave functions influences ...

What you’re looking at is the first direct observation of an atom’s electron orbital — an atom’s actual wave function! To capture the image, researchers utilized a new quantum microscope ...

The team overcame this problem by utilizing the electric field gradient of terahertz pulses to accelerate the trailing part and decelerate the leading part of the electron wave function ...

What does an electron really look like? What does an electron really look like? I mean, if we zoom in all the way. Is it a sizeless speck of charge? Is it a multidimensional vortex of quantum ...

But suppose you set up a pair of cameras to monitor which slit the electron goes through and suddenly – poof – the “wave function collapses” and it really goes through only one of the two.

The method is based on the idea of approximating the many-electron wave function using the ground state electron density. While DFT is a very powerful tool, it has limitations, particularly when ...