Bessel Function: A solution to Bessel’s differential equation, these functions commonly arise in problems exhibiting cylindrical symmetry in quantum and wave physics.

Quantum mechanics has a concept called a "wave function." It's incredibly important because it holds all the measurable information about a particle (or group of particles) within it. In practice ...

Here’s a ten-second quantum mechanics course. At a fundamental level, everything in the universe behaves like a little probability wave.

Two different concepts of distinguishability are often mixed up in attempts to derive in quantum mechanics the (anti)symmetry of the wave function from indistinguishability of identical particles.

It underpins the whole theory of quantum mechanics, but does it exist? For nearly a century physicists have argued about whether the wave function is a real part of the world or just a ...

A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 5: Catching a wave When it comes to quantum mechanics, confinement is not necessarily bad.

Some interpretations of quantum mechanics propose that our entire universe is described by a single universal wave function that constantly splits and multiplies.

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.

LLMs and the Quantum Superposition of Meaning This brings us to an interesting and very conceptual analogy rooted in quantum mechanics: the concept of wave function collapse.