When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

In a study published July 7 th, 2025, in the journal Physical Review Research, University of Vermont researchers discovered a precise solution to a model that acts as a “damped quantum harmonic ...

Hall et al. [Phys. Rev. X 4 (2014) 041013] recently proposed that quantum theory can be understood as the continuum limit of a deterministic theory in which there is a large, but finite, number of ...

Hermitian Hamiltonians are a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics, serving as the mathematical foundation for describing the energy and time evolution of quantum systems. They are named after the ...

University of Vermont professor Dennis Clougherty (right) and his student Nam Dinh wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the vibrating motion of a guitar string in the ...