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 ...

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 ...

In work published in Physical Review Research, they present an exact solution for what they call a “damped quantum harmonic oscillator,” essentially the atomic-scale equivalent of a slowly ...