Comment on Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months agoarxiv.org/abs/2404.05699 There’s the paper I think.
Comment on Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months agoarxiv.org/abs/2404.05699 There’s the paper I think.
sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
As I understand it, they are making measurements of an otherwise single isolated particle as it moves about in a controlled space, and the measurements confirm (yet again) that the measurement outcomes match the probabilities given by the Schrödinger equation, which means that it interferes with itself.
The language used may lead some to think that we now have images showing a wave-like particle, but again, that’s not something that can ever happen. What we have are boring old images of a single classical-looking particle, but the patterns they display tells us that quantum mechanics is very much at play in between the takes.