A Vermont research team has cracked a 90-year-old puzzle, creating a quantum version of the damped harmonic oscillator. By reformulating Lamb’s classical model, they showed how atomic vibrations can ...

That BEC picture I keep re-using can be viewed as a picture of a quantum harmonic oscillator-- one of the key ways that Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman confirmed that they had BEC back in 1995 was ...

The solution to the damped quantum harmonic oscillator might sound abstract, but its implications reach far. One direct outcome of this work is the possibility of measuring position at scales ...

It turns out that for roughly 90 years, theorists have tried to describe these damped harmonic systems using quantum physics—but with limited success.

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...