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Erwin Schrödinger and quantum wave mechanics

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22/08/2017
Author
O'Connor, John J.
Robertson, Edmund F.
Keywords
QC Physics
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Abstract
The fathers of matrix quantum mechanics believed that the quantum particles are unanschaulich (unvisualizable) and that quantum particles pop into existence only when we measure them. Challenging the orthodoxy, in 1926 Erwin Schrödinger developed his wave equation that describes the quantum particles as a packet of quantum probability amplitudes evolving in space and time. Thus, Schrödinger visualized the unvisualizable and lifted the veil that has been obscuring the wonders of the quantum world.
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O'Connor , J J & Robertson , E F 2017 , ' Erwin Schrödinger and quantum wave mechanics ' , Quanta , vol. 6 , no. 1 , pp. 48-52 . https://doi.org/10.12743/quanta.v6i1.60
Publication
Quanta
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12743/quanta.v6i1.60
ISSN
1314-7374
Type
Journal article
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Copyright (c) 2017 Quanta. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY-3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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  • Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA) Research
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11543

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