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dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, John J.
dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Edmund F.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-25T11:30:08Z
dc.date.available2017-08-25T11:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-22
dc.identifier250935391
dc.identifier53f3a40d-65c5-4a00-8c38-5c6977e3df04
dc.identifier85034095070
dc.identifier.citationO'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.v6i1.60en
dc.identifier.issn1314-7374
dc.identifier.othercrossref: 10.12743/quanta.v6i1.60
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11543
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.format.extent5
dc.format.extent146632
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofQuantaen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleErwin Schrödinger and quantum wave mechanicsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statisticsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebraen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Applied Mathematicsen
dc.identifier.doi10.12743/quanta.v6i1.60
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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