Sentences with phrase «quantum mechanical wave»

It can only be understood if we take the particles» quantum mechanical wave nature into account.

Due to their quantum mechanical wave - like properties, when electrons are scattered off a crystal, they interfere with each other to create a diffraction pattern.

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.

«What we see as electrons, protons or quantum mechanical waves are manifestations of the fundamental super microscopic scale of these field patterns, Milton says.

Not exact matches

If black hole after all the scenario of quantum mechanical process have completed their interactions behave accordingly to Relativity equation to became eventually a tiny speck in space of high intensity mass with very strong gravitation wave could the telescope have picked up such polarization of light from some gravitated wave of dying star or black hole.

BECs act in a quantum - mechanical wave - like fashion and interfere with each other.

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.

«So these molecules would no longer run around like billiard balls, but move as quantum mechanical matter waves.

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.

Why isn't the dual wave / particle nature of the quantum mechanical world present in the macroscopic world (say, for a basketball)?

By reading and analyzing this current, FAU researchers have found that quantum mechanical interference of electron waves can be used to control current on extremely short time scales.

The sensitivity of all interferometric gravitational - wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, and GEO600) to the ripples of space - time from large cosmic events is fundamentally limited by quantum mechanical effects.

(The relationship between molecular structure and photon absorption is a quantum mechanical effect with no good commonplace everyday analogy; some have tried to represent this by visuals of springs stretching vs. bending but that's something of a hand - waving explanation.

Put another way, how all the interfering waves and probabilities of occupying available quantum states make a transition to a non-quantum mechanical material property.

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).