Sentences with phrase «mechanical wave function»

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics By James Kakalios (Gotham) Professor and professed nerd Kakalios explains the quantum world through science fiction characters like Buck Rogers and Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, who «gained independent control over his quantum mechanical wave function» to teleport and change his size.

Not exact matches

By altering the quantum - mechanical wave nature or wave functions of the reactants, we are now able to control, to an extent far greater than was previously possible, the final product.

Following their 2012 paper, Mayboroda and Filoche looked for ways to extend the landscape function from mechanical vibrations to the quantum world of electron waves.

When I was a physicist, back in the days when supercomputers had as much power as a cellphone, those of us who studied orientational forces between molecules of hydrogen or nitrogen used spherical harmonics to represent the behaviors (shperoidal wave functions, actually, since it is a quantum - mechanical problem).